====== Installing TeamSpeak on Ubuntu ======

[[http://www.goteamspeak.com/|TeamSpeak]] is a free software which allows you to communicate (vocally) with your friends. This tool is as easy to use as it is to install.

This tutorial is also [[en:hosting:using-linux:tutorials:ubuntu:teamspeak_screencast|available as a ScreenCast]].


===== Step 1: Fetching the package =====

It is strongly advised to launch TeamSpeak from a non root user.
Therefore, we shall start by creating a user. Of course, you could also use a suitable user you had already created ([[http://wiki.gandi.net/en/hosting/using-linux/unix-user-admin|more here about managing the users on your server]]):

  adduser teamspeakuser

Which will give us this:

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Having provided the password and logged in as this user (**teamspeakuser** from root), let's go into his homedir (by typing the command **cd/home/teamspeakuser/**) and fetch the TeamSpeak archive (the address given here is valid at the time of writing, but we're relying on the community to keep it up to date!):

  wget ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/teamspeak.org/releases/ts2_server_rc2_202319.tar.bz2

We now need to decompress this archive :

  tar -xjf ts2_server_rc2_202319.tar.bz2

The server is ready to work!


===== Step 2: Launching the server =====

Go into the server's folder
  cd /home/teamspeakuser/tss2_rc2

You will find something which looks like this (with the **ls - la** command)

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However, a key folder is missing: server.log\\
It will be generated during the first launch of the server, and will be essential from then on.

Let's launch the server :
  ./teamspeak2-server_startscript start
Which will give us this message :

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If we list our folder again, we'll find 6 new files including the infamous server.log

Let's have a look at this one :
  cat server.log
The essential information contained in this file are in the following two lines :

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Those are the passwords for the admin **AND** the superadmin for the server. Of course, every installation of TeamSpeak generates a different password when it is first launched. That is why server.log didn't exist at the beginning of the setup.\\
\\
You can also type the following command to display the passwords :
  ./teamspeak2-server_startscript passwords



===== Step 3: Server configuration =====

With these informations, we are going to be able to connect to the TeamSpeak web interface.

No need to have Apache, MySQL, PHP or the like, TeamSpeak is a genuine StandAlone!

In your favorite web navigator; type in the url which corresponds to the IP (or the domain name if you have a DNS configured), plus the port specific to the TeamSpeak administration interface, which is 14534. For instance :
  http://217.70.190.13:14534

You will come to an interface of this sort:

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You will prefer the superadmin interface which will allow you to switch to the admin's later (working your way down, as it were) :
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From this interface, you will be able to edit your server, add users, create new servers etc... But that would be a different tutorial altogether :)


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