Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody

I have a linux ISP dedicated server where i'd like to install Icecast. Before starting, I'd like to ask my provider if the server has everything needed to run Icecast. Can you tell me the server requirements?

A second question: Can I install Icecast in any domain hosting (at that server) or do I have to install it in the root or something?

Thanks

[karlH]

CPU/ram resources for icecast are minimal, the main thing to work out is the bandwidth allocated for your listeners. For installation many packages install as if root is doing that but icecast itself is not dependent on that, however things like shared libs that it relies on need to be available.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Hi karlH, thanks for your answer.

There's something that's not clear for me (perhaps because my english is not very good XD) That thing of the shared libraries: which ones do I need installed in the server?

I get some errors whille installing but I think it's better to ask for advice in a differente post.

TIA

[karlH]

the librarties you require are listed in the docs, libxml2/libxslt, ogg, vorbis are required, others are optional but are often included like curl, theora. Your distro should have these.

karl.