silc and bashrc

Anyone have experience using silc? Its a bit like IRC, but utilizes
encryption, among other things. I've installed it, sort of, but can't get
it to run with the "silc" command the README file specifies. I figure I
just need to add its own silc/bin directory to my .bashrc file, but I
can't seem to find that either (tried ls -a in my home directory and all).
Any ideas on where I can locate the file and get silc running?

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+ David "Huertanix" Huerta
+ DeVry Linux User Group
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