How To Install darkice on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkice
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is darkice
darkice is:
DarkIce is an IceCast, IceCast2 and ShoutCast live audio streamer. It takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it into mp3 and/or Ogg Vorbis, and sends the mp3 stream to one or more IceCast and/or ShoutCast servers, the Ogg Vorbis stream to one or more IceCast2 servers. DarkIce uses lame as a shared object as its mp3 encoder, and the Ogg Vorbis as its Ogg Vorbis encoder.
A legacy SYSV init script is provided for existing configurations. You have to set RUN=yes in /etc/default/darkice to run darkice as a daemon. With modern systems, this is not needed as realtime scheduling is available to normal users.
There are three methods to install darkice
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install darkice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install darkice
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install darkice
Install darkice Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install darkice
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install darkice
Install darkice Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install darkice
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install darkice
How To Uninstall darkice on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the darkice
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove darkice
Uninstall darkice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall darkice
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove darkice
Remove darkice Configurations and Data
To remove darkice
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge darkice
Remove darkice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove darkice
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge darkice
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkice
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.