Installing Glowing Bear on OpenBSD

Glowing Bear is a web front-end for WeeChat, an CLI chat client. It provides a modern and user-friendly interface for WeeChat users. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Glowing Bear on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

  • OpenBSD system with root access
  • WeeChat installed and configured
  • Internet connectivity

Steps

  1. Install required packages:
# pkg_add -v py3-setuptools py3-cffi py3-numpy py-numpy,python%3.9 git
  1. Clone Glowing Bear repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear
  1. Change to the Glowing Bear directory:
$ cd glowing-bear
  1. Install Glowing Bear:
# python3 setup.py install
  1. Create a configuration file for Glowing Bear:
$ cp config.py.example config.py
  1. Edit the configuration file to set the WeeChat settings:
$ vi config.py

Set the following variables in the file:

SERVER = '127.0.0.1'
WEB_PATH = '/weechat/'
WEB_PORT = 9001
WEB_SSL = False
  1. Start WeeChat with relay support:
$ wee -d ~/.weechat/plugins -r relay add ssl.weechat 9001 password
$ wee -d ~/.weechat/plugins -r relay on
  1. Run Glowing Bear:
$ gb
  1. Access Glowing Bear in a web browser at http://localhost:8080/weechat/.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Glowing Bear on OpenBSD.