[Icecast] Procedure to Install Icecast 2.4.2 in Linux

Mon Nov 2 17:10:11 UTC 2015

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On 11/2/2015 5:35 AM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> 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
>> Cell: 704-996-5334
>> Email: jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com
>> Social Networking: /jzrogers
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>> Cell: 704-996-5334
>>> Email: jeremiahzrogers at gmail.com
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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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