Great!
My only comment is: you can start/stop the liquidsoap process using:
/etc/init.d/liquidsoap <start/stop>
Romain
2016-04-28 6:22 GMT-05:00 Alex LaBranche <[email protected]>:
> success!
>
> thanks again for the paste bin.
>
> following the paste bin, i had no issues installing and running on ubuntu.
>
> i did have to re-create the liquidsoap user/group.
>
> (also i only gave liquidsoap user sudo access during the install, removed
> after)
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
> Release: 14.04
> Codename: trusty
>
> the executable was installed to
>
> /home/liquidsoap/.opam/system/bin/liquidsoap
>
> i killed the running liq process which was started during install
>
> $ ps x
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 7330 ? Sl 0:10 /home/liquidsoap/.opam/system/bin/liquidsoap
> /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon/run.liq
>
> $ kill -9 7330
> $
>
> copied the contents of my own liq script to
>
> /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon/main.liq
>
> making sure to remove the shbang i had at the beginning
>
> #!/usr/bin/liquidsoap
>
> restarted the process with
>
> /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon/run.liq
>
> checked the log file
>
> $ tail -f /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon/log/run.log
> 2016/04/28 10:54:08 [output(dot)shoutcast:3] Connecting mount / for
> [email protected]...
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [output(dot)shoutcast:3] Connection setup was
> successful.
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [threads:3] Created thread "wallclock_main" (2 total).
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [clock.wallclock_main:3] Streaming loop starts,
> synchronized with wallclock.
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [decoder:3] Method "MAD" accepted "audio/mpeg".
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [http_5027:3] Decoding...
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [fallback_5033:3] Switch to mksafe.
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [mksafe:3] Switch to safe_blank.
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [http_5027:3] New metadata chunk: ? -- ARCHIVE -
> 2011-01-01 - Dank Dealz 2011 Dubstep Odysee.
> 2016/04/28 10:54:09 [mksafe:3] Switch to http_5027 with transition.
>
> everything is working perfectly!
>
> thanks again =]
>
> here again is the list of commands from the paste bin for reference
>
> ################################
>
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends opam m4 ocaml-nox
> $ sudo adduser liquidsoap
> $ su liquidsoap
> $ cd ~/
> $ opam init
> $ y
> $ eval `opam config env`
> $ opam install depext
> $ y
> $ sudo apt-get install -qq -yy camlp4-extra libmad0-dev libmp3lame-dev
> libogg-dev libpcre3-dev libtag1-dev libvorbis-dev ncurses-dev pkg-config
> init-system-helpers
> $ opam depext taglib mad lame vorbis cry liquidsoap liquidsoap-daemon
> $ mkdir -p /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon
> $ echo "output.dummy(blank())" >
> /home/liquidsoap/liquidsoap-daemon/main.liq
> $ opam install taglib mad lame vorbis cry liquidsoap liquidsoap-daemon
> $ y
>
> ################################
>
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Romain Beauxis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I understand that installing liquidsoap can be frustrating. Unfortunately,
> that happens with software with large dependencies such as this one.
>
> I have uploaded a paste-bin of a step-by-step installation of liquidsoap
> through opam on debian stable. This should hopefully help you out as well
> as others here. Note that, at the end of install, liquidsoap runs as daemon
> under a non-priviledged liquidsoap user.
>
> The paste-bin is here: http://pastebin.com/raw/Wk5WYtH6
>
> Romain
>
> 2016-04-27 10:28 GMT-05:00 Nicholas Vrtis <[email protected]>:
>
>> Lars,
>>
>> While it might be nice to be able to wait for some kind Devian Maintainer
>> to take over the maintenance, I do not want to hold my breath.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I have been trying to go through the steps necessary to get
>> the opam install process working and documented on a Debian system.
>> Currently, the opam install appears to be broken. I can mostly stumble
>> through it because I have been doing code maintenance for 40 years. But it
>> is not simple enough for somebody to step through, and if something
>> upstream changes, it will not be obvious.
>>
>> In addition, some of the default locations and directories are much
>> different in the opam install. There is a fair amount of work that needs
>> to be done in order to make it run at startup, or run from a user other
>> than the one that did the install (so.. install it using the root account,
>> and suddenly, liquidsoap has root permissions.. scarey to a security guy).
>>
>> I am trying to work through issues as I run across them. But it is
>> getting pretty frustrating. At this stage, even if I wanted to create a
>> Debian package, it would not work.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Lars Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sahra,
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:17:58 -0700
>>> schrieb Sarah Alawami <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> > I always try and update to the latest and gratest in software. But
>>> since the
>>> > apt repositeries won't be updated to 1.2.0 I don't see myself using it
>>> at any
>>> > time.
>>>
>>> just for wording nitpicking: with "apt" repositories you probably refer
>>> to
>>> the Debian package repositories. "apt" ist just the most popular
>>> frontend for
>>> managing software on debian-based systems.
>>>
>>> Regarding "won't be updated": Romain simply clarified, that he will not
>>> actively participate in the maintainance of the Debian package.
>>> Obviously it is always preferable if upstream developers like him are
>>> involved
>>> in packaging. But the overwhelming majority of Debian packages is
>>> maintained by
>>> Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers and not upstream developers.
>>> Thus I am
>>> not worried that there will be further package updates.
>>>
>>> If anyone of you wants to participate in the packaging, I encourage you
>>> to take
>>> a look at the Debian Maintainer procedure ([1]). This takes much less
>>> effort
>>> that becoming a Debian Developer and it would surely be a great help for
>>> liquidsoap since a well maintained and up-to-date Debian package would
>>> obviously reduce the amount of mailing list support significantly :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lars
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
>>>
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