5 Any knowledge of how to work with mouse and icons is not required.
7 ---------------------------
8 Install all needed packages
9 ---------------------------
12 <a href="REQUIREMENTS.html"> REQUIREMENTS </a>
14 for a list of required software. You don't need everything listed
15 there. In particular, mp3, ogg vorbis and aac, ortp support is
16 optional. Autoconf will detect what is installed on your system
17 and will only try to build those executables that can be built with
20 Note that no special library (not even the mp3 decoding library libmad)
21 is needed for para_server if you only want to stream mp3 files.
22 Also, it's fine to use para_server on a box without sound card as
23 para_server only sends the audio stream to connected clients.
25 -------------------------
26 Install server and client
27 -------------------------
29 Install the package on all machines, you'd like this software to run on:
31 (./configure && make) > /dev/null
33 There should be no errors but probably some warnings about missing
34 software packages which usually implies that not all audio formats will
35 be supported. If headers or libs are installed at unusual locations
36 you might need to tell the configure script to find them. Try
40 to see a list of options. If the paraslash package was compiled
41 successfully, execute as root,
45 -----------------------------------
46 Setup user list and create rsa keys
47 -----------------------------------
49 If you already have your rsa keys, skip this step. If you are new
50 to paraslash, you have to generate an rsa key pair for each user you
51 want to allow to connect. You need at least one user.
53 Let's assume that you'd like to run the server on host server_host
54 as user foo, and that you want to connect from client_host as user bar.
56 As foo@server_host, create ~/.paraslash/server.users by typing the
60 target=~/.paraslash/server.users
61 key=~/.paraslash/key.pub.$user
62 perms=AFS_READ,AFS_WRITE,VSS_READ,VSS_WRITE
64 echo "user $user $key $perms" >> $target
66 This gives "bar" the full privileges.
68 Change to the bar account on client_host and generate the key-pair
71 key=~/.paraslash/key.$LOGNAME
73 (umask 077 && openssl genrsa -out $key)
75 Next, extract its public part:
77 pubkey=~/.paraslash/key.pub.$LOGNAME
78 openssl rsa -in $key -pubout -out $pubkey
80 and copy the public key just created to server_host (you may
81 skip this step for a single-user setup, i.e. if foo=bar and
82 server_host=client_host):
84 scp $pubkey foo@server_host:.paraslash/
86 Finally, tell para_client to connect to server_host:
88 conf=~/.paraslash/client.conf
89 echo 'hostname server_host' > $conf
95 For this first try, we'll use a debug level of two to make the
96 output of para_server more verbose.
100 Now you can use para_client to connect to the server and issue
101 commands. Open a new shell (as "bar" on "client_host" in the above
107 to retrieve the list of available commands and some server info.
108 Don't proceed if this doesn't work.
116 This creates some empty tables under ~/.paraslash/afs_database.
117 You normally don't need to look at these tables, but it's good
118 to know that you can start from scratch with
120 rm -rf ~/.paraslash/afs_database
122 in case something went wrong.
124 Next, you need to fill the audio file table of that database with
125 contents so that para_server knows about your audio files. Choose an
126 absolute path to a directory containing some audio files and add them
127 to the audio file table:
129 para_client add /my/mp3/dir
131 This might take a while, so it is a good idea to start with a directory
132 containing not too many audio files. Note that the table only contains
133 data about the audio files found, not the files themselves.
135 Print a list of all audio files found with
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140 Start streaming manually
141 ------------------------
146 This starts streaming and dumps some information about the current
147 audio file to stdout.
149 You should now be able to receive the stream and listen to it. If
150 you have mpg123 or xmms handy, execute on client_host
152 mpg123 http://server_host:8000/
154 xmms http://server_host:8000/
156 Paraslash comes with its own receiving and playing software, which
157 will be described next. Try the following on client_host (assuming
158 Linux/ALSA and an mp3 stream):
160 para_recv -l 2 -r 'http -i server_host' > file.mp3
161 # (interrupt with CTRL+C after a few seconds)
162 ls -l file.mp3 # should not be empty
163 para_filter -f mp3dec -f wav < file.mp3 > file.wav
164 ls -l file.wav # should be much bigger than file.mp3
165 para_write -w alsa < file.wav
167 If this works, proceed. Otherwise double check what is logged by
168 para_server and use the --loglevel option of para_recv, para_filter
169 and para_write to increase verbosity.
171 Next, put the pieces together:
173 para_recv -r 'http -i server_host' \
174 | para_filter -f mp3dec -f wav \
177 ---------------------
178 Configure para_audiod
179 ---------------------
181 In order to automatically start the right decoder at the right time
182 and to offer to the clients some information on the current audio
183 stream and on paraslash's internal state, you should run the local
184 audio daemon, para_audiod, on every machine in your network which is
185 supposed to play the audio stream. Try
189 for help. Usually you have to specify only server_host as the receiver
190 specifier for each supported audio format, like this:
192 para_audiod -l 2 -r 'mp3:http -i server_host'
194 The preferred way to use para_audiod is to run it once at system start
195 as an unprivileged user. para_audiod needs to create a "well-known"
196 socket for the clients to connect to. The default path for this
199 /var/paraslash/audiod_socket.$HOSTNAME
201 so the /var/paraslash directory should be writable for the user who
204 If you want to change the location of the socket, use the -s option
205 for para_audiod or the config file ~/.paraslash/audiod.conf to change
206 the default. Note that in this case you'll also have to specify the
207 same value for para_audioc's -s option.
209 If para_server is playing, you should be able to listen to the audio
210 stream as soon as para_audiod is started. Once it is running, try
214 That should dump some information to stdout. Other commands include
226 para_gui reads the output of "para_audioc stat" and displays that
227 information in a curses window. It also allows you to bind keys to
228 arbitrary commands. There are several flavours of key-bindings:
230 - internal: These are the built-in commands that can not be
231 changed (help, quit, loglevel, version...).
232 - external: Shutdown curses before launching the given command.
233 Useful for starting other ncurses programs from within
234 para_gui, e.g. aumix or dialog scripts. Or, use the mbox
235 output format to write a mailbox containing one mail for each
236 (admissible) file the audio file selector knows about. Then
237 start mutt from within para_gui to browse your collection!
238 - display: Launch the command and display its stdout in
239 para_gui's bottom window.
240 - para: Like display, but start "para_client <specified
241 command>" instead of "<specified command>".
243 This concludes the installation notes. Next thing you might to have a look
244 at is how to use paraslash's audio file selector. See
246 <a href="README.afs.html"> README.afs</a>