How To Install icecast on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecast on Fedora 36.
What is icecast
Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.
We can use yum or dnf to install icecast on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icecast.
Install icecast on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install icecast using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icecast
Install icecast on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install icecast using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icecast
How To Uninstall icecast on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the icecast package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icecast
icecast Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/icecast.xml
/etc/logrotate.d/icecast
/usr/bin/icecast
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/cca0981aead43b52df6d4eec64a02e9e76ae7c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/icecast.service
/usr/share/doc/icecast
/usr/share/icecast
/usr/share/icecast/admin
/usr/share/icecast/admin/listclients.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/listmounts.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/manageauth.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/moveclients.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/response.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/stats.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/updatemetadata.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/vclt.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/admin/xspf.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web
/usr/share/icecast/web/auth.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web/icecast.png
/usr/share/icecast/web/key.png
/usr/share/icecast/web/server_version.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web/status-json.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web/status.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web/status3.xsl
/usr/share/icecast/web/style.css
/usr/share/icecast/web/tunein.png
/usr/share/icecast/web/xml2json.xslt
/usr/share/licenses/icecast
/usr/share/licenses/icecast/COPYING
/var/log/icecast
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecast on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).