Atheme is a set of IRC services designed for large IRC networks with high scalability requirements. It is relatively mature software, with some code and design derived from another package called Shrike.
Atheme's behavior is tunable using modules and a highly detailed configuration file. Almost all behavior can be changed at deployment time just by editing the configuration.
You can either git clone https://github.com/atheme/atheme.git or download a package via our website at https://atheme.github.io/ -- Please do not click the Download buttons on GitHub as they lack needed submodules, etc.
If you are running this code from Git, you should read GIT-Access.txt for instructions on how to fully check out the atheme tree, as it is spread across many repositories.
Whatever you do, make sure you do not install Atheme into the same location
as the source. Atheme will default to installing in $HOME/atheme, so make
sure you plan accordingly for this.
$ git submodule update --init
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
If you're still lost, read the INSTALL or GIT-Access.txt files or check out our wiki (http://github.com/atheme/atheme/wiki) for more hints.