A README with some possibly correct build instructions might be nice.

README

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 Shbot is an IRC bot that runs shell code. It is a fork of evalbot
 (http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/evalbot/).
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+To build, you'll need 
+
+- Typical build tools: A C compiler, make, yacc, lex ...
+- Header files of libraries needed to build bash, awk, mksh etc.
+- Other standard and typical commands, like gzip, bzip2 and pax.
+
+For Ubuntu/Debian
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+    sudo apt-get install build-essential pax
+    sudo apt-get build-dep bash gawk mawk mksh
+
+Should get most, if not all, build requirements down.
+
+Run make