HOWTO: Install Airtime on Dreamhost Debian Squeeze VPS - Airtime Documentation Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Alex Groleau · Post edited by Alex Groleau at 2013-01-18 14:06:59

Hello,

After much trial & error, I finally got Airtime to install on my Dreamhost VPS.

Here are the instructions. Enjoy!

1. Remove Dreamhost Management (Everything but Users/FTP Management)

2. Set Up Hosts File

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

## Debian Squeeze sources.list

## Debian security updates:

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

## Debian.org:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

## Debian Official Repository Mirror squeeze:

deb ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

## Debian US mirror:

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

## Multimedia

deb ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

## Debian US mirror:

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

## Other Multimedia

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze-backports main

## Airtime

deb http://apt.sourcefabric.org/ squeeze main

3. Update Packages

sudo apt-get update

4. Install Digest::MD5

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::MD5'

5. Remove Dreamhost Custom Packages

sudo aptitude remove '~o'

6. Configure Locale (en-US.UTF-8)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

REBOOT NOW!

7. Allow Other Execution in Home Directory (required for Airtime UTF8 check)

chmod o+x /home/<username>

8. Install Soundfabric Package

sudo apt-get install sourcefabric-keyring

9. Remove PostgresSQL (Existing)

sudo apt-get --purge remove postgresql\*

sudo userdel -r postgres

sudo groupdel postgres

10. Re-install DBMS

sudo apt-get install postgresql

11. Verify PostgreSQL UTF8 Encoding

sudo su -c 'psql -t -c "SHOW SERVER_ENCODING"' postgres | grep -i "UTF.*8"

12. Install IceCast2

sudo apt-get install icecast2

13. Remove PulseAudio

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio

14. Install Airtime

sudo apt-get install airtime

15. Fix Apache Sites-Enabled

sudo unlink /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

sudo service apache2 restart

Thanks,

awgneo

Alex Groleau

added apache sites-enabled fix ;)

Daniel James

Hi Alex, thanks for posting that!

Alex Groleau

NP! Great software BTW! After getting it all working it has been working extremely well :)

One other issue I had was that my Icecast2 streams were not being configured properly after I had changed settings around on them.

I followed the post here: http://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/14743/stream-configuration-problem-with-airtime-2.2/p1

"In /etc/init.d/airtime-liquidsoap I removed --nicelevel -15 from the parameters and restarted the service with $ sudo invoke-rc.d airtime-liquidsoap restart"

Then things starting syncing up again instead of it saying "Getting information from the server" forever in the Airtime UI. I am not sure exactly why I had to make this change, however.

Howdy, Stranger!

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