[Icecast] Procedure to Install Icecast 2.4.2 in Linux

Mon Nov 2 13:35:37 UTC 2015

Good afternoon,

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 07:19 -0500, Jeremiah Rogers wrote:
> Sorry to reply to myself. The message says "could not parse xslt".

Ok. Please have a look at the config file (icecast*.xml). In the <paths>
section there should be a <webroot> as well as a <adminroot> setting. Do
those point to existing directories with some *.xsl in them?

Another litte hint: apt-get install --reinstall ...

Have a nice day!

> Jeremiah Rogers
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> 
> > On Nov 2, 2015, at 05:51, Jeremiah Rogers <jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Philipp. Thanks so much for the educatin about why not to build myself.
> > 
> > The error I was getting, from a browser when I tried to open the URL to my machine running Icecast, was a 404 error and a message that it couldn't find the XSLT files. I'll install the packaged build again later today and provide you exact error text, but I remember it saying it couldn't find or process the XSLT.
> > 
> > Would it be helpful for me to do an apt-get download icecast2 and somehow provide the resulting download to someone off-list so they can see what I got?
> > 
> > Jeremiah Rogers
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> > 
> > 
> >> On Nov 2, 2015, at 02:17, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Good morning,
> >> 
> >>> On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 18:12 -0500, Jeremiah Rogers wrote:
> >>> Hi all. I'm brand new to Linux and want to install Icecast 2.4.2 on Raspian.
> >>> 
> >>> I used apt-get to install Icecast 2.4.0, and the install would stream 
> >>> music, but none of the status or admin pages would work. I ran the 
> >>> install by typing sudo apt-get install icecast2 from ~.
> >> 
> >> Ok, that sounds right.
> >> 
> >> What error message you get when accessing those pages?
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> I thought I might get better results if I built and installed myself. 
> >>> Anyone able to provide step-by-step instructions to unpack and build 
> >>> from the tar.gz, or point me to a good tutorial online for doing such? 
> >>> In particular, which directory should I be in to initiate the work? Do I 
> >>> need to use sudo? Once installed, what do I do to make it run on system 
> >>> boot? I will be running this install from a fresh image. Thanks!
> >> 
> >> I very much recommend against installing stuff from source. This is not
> >> so much related to Icecast2 but a general statement.
> >> 
> >> The reasons why I recommend using pre-compiled packages are as the
> >> following. The importance of individual aspects vary depending on your
> >> situation.
> >>     * You will not get updates. You will likely never notice that
> >>       there are updates out there. This is a big problem as no
> >>       SECURITY fixes can reach you. Thus installing stuff from source
> >>       can be very harmful.
> >>     * Most people install stuff from source without verifying the
> >>       source. (Or have no way to really verify it at all as they're
> >>       (cryptographically speaking) too far away from the source. So
> >>       you will run a software that may be altered on it's path to you
> >>       (this includes everything from simple transmission errors to
> >>       attacks specially targeted to you). Thus you can not trust the
> >>       software most of the time. Once your ran any untrusted software
> >>       your system must be considered compromised.
> >>     * The package is made to fit your system while the source is not.
> >>       e.g. the package usually installs scripts and helper files to
> >>       e.g. start a daemon on system start up or intigrate with tools
> >>       like logrotate. You need to do all that yourself and may or may
> >>       not aware of all those things. See your question above. You have
> >>       asked for it already so you got this point already :).
> >>     * If people run the package provided by the OS it's more easy to
> >>       handle bugs. There is a single packet that you can report bugs
> >>       against and the maintainer can upstream bugs or cooperate with
> >>       upstream in any way to solve problems. If you run your own
> >>       package you need to take care yourself.
> >>     * You waste energy. Compiling is process taking a lot of energy.
> >>       And there is no reason for the mass do to this as the
> >>       pre-compiled binaries are matching your system virtually
> >>       perfectly. Energy is the ONLY single one resource on this planet
> >>       we are RUNNING OUT OF.
> >> 
> >> So for the reasons above I would prefer to work on fixing the problem
> >> above and not go with source code. Plus I think you will learn a bit
> >> about the system that is new to you. :)
> >> 
> >> Have a nice day! Awaiting your response with the error message(s).
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Philipp.
> >> (Rah of PH2)
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Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)
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