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I would like to install Xchat, the IRC client, on Ubuntu 21.04. These are the instructions I find on various parts of the web, to run:

sudo apt install xchat

However, when I run this, I get this error:

Package xchat is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'xchat' has no installation candidate

In seems that the package xchat is no longer available in the Ubuntu universe repositories in Ubuntu 20.10 or later. Is that right? Or am I missing something?

muru
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Flimm
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https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=xchat

xchat isn't maintained and hexchat is generally preferred

xchat requires python2 (EOL) and hasn't been ported to python3.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/xchat

guiverc
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