[Icecast] Procedure to Install Icecast 2.4.2 in Linux

Mon Nov 2 17:18:36 UTC 2015

My apologies, I mis-posted.

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Jack Elliott
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On 11/2/2015 9:10 AM, that Jack Elliott wrote:
> Oops -- forgot to create the folder. Move bits and pieces in there at 
> your convenience. Thanks!
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> Jack Elliott
> Producer, The Point Wednesday
> Host, The Sunday Classics
> KPOV 88.9 High Desert Radio
> kpov.org
> 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
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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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