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Quick reference

• Maintained by:
  Jessie and Tianon (of the Docker Community), with the appreciation of the Irssi Project

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Slack, Server Fault, Unix & Linux, or Stack Overflow

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 1.4.5, 1.4, 1, latest, 1.4.5-trixie, 1.4-trixie, 1-trixie, trixie

• 1.4.5-alpine, 1.4-alpine, 1-alpine, alpine, 1.4.5-alpine3.23, 1.4-alpine3.23, 1-alpine3.23, alpine3.23

Quick reference (cont.)

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/jessfraz/irssi/issues

• Supported architectures: (more info)
  amd64, arm32v5, arm32v6, arm32v7, arm64v8, i386, ppc64le, riscv64, s390x

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo's repos/irssi/ directory (history)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images repo's library/irssi label
  official-images repo's library/irssi file (history)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo's irssi/ directory (history)

What is irssi?

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. Some people refer to it as 'the client of the future'.

irssi.org

How to use this image

Because it is unlikely any two irssi users have the same configuration preferences, this image does not include an irssi configuration. To configure irssi to your liking, please refer to upstream's excellent (and comprehensive) +documentation.

Be sure to also checkout the awesome scripts you can download to customize your irssi configuration.

Directly via bind mount

On a Linux system, build and launch a container named my-running-irssi like this:

$ docker run -it --name my-running-irssi -e TERM -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    --log-driver=none \
    -v $HOME/.irssi:/home/user/.irssi:ro \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    irssi

We specify --log-driver=none to avoid storing useless interactive terminal data.

On a Mac OS X system, run the same image using:

$ docker run -it --name my-running-irssi -e TERM -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    --log-driver=none \
    -v $HOME/.irssi:/home/user/.irssi:ro \
    irssi

You omit /etc/localtime on Mac OS X because boot2docker doesn't use this file.

Image Variants

The irssi images come in many flavors, each designed for a specific use case.

irssi:<version>

This is the defacto image. If you are unsure about what your needs are, you probably want to use this one. It is designed to be used both as a throw away container (mount your source code and start the container to start your app), as well as the base to build other images off of.

Some of these tags may have names like trixie in them. These are the suite code names for releases of Debian and indicate which release the image is based on. If your image needs to install any additional packages beyond what comes with the image, you'll likely want to specify one of these explicitly to minimize breakage when there are new releases of Debian.

irssi:<version>-alpine

This image is based on the popular Alpine Linux project, available in the alpine official image. Alpine Linux is much smaller than most distribution base images (~5MB), and thus leads to much slimmer images in general.

This variant is useful when final image size being as small as possible is your primary concern. The main caveat to note is that it does use musl libc instead of glibc and friends, so software will often run into issues depending on the depth of their libc requirements/assumptions. See this Hacker News comment thread for more discussion of the issues that might arise and some pro/con comparisons of using Alpine-based images.…