Ərk 0.850

Ərk is an open-source IRC client written with Python, Qt, and Twisted. Python 3 is required, as is PyQt5 and Twisted. If Python 3 is already installed, these can be installed with pip:

pip install pyqt5
pip install Twisted

To connect to IRC servers using SSL/TLS, install PyOpenSSL:

pip install pyOpenSSL
pip install service_identity

Ərk is functional, and ready for daily use. Most features are complete.

Ərk is officially supported on Linux and Windows. Note: if you want to use Erk on a Debian or Debian variant distro, you must install PyQt from pip, not from the software repository.