Installing Savonet/Liquidsoap

There are several ways to install liquidsoap, either compiled from source, or using a package available for your distribution.

Installing from source

You can download source code published by Savonet in our sourceforge download section.

The recommended way for newcomers is to use the liquidsoap-full-xxx.tar.gz tarball. This tarball includes all required OCaml bindings and allows you to compile and install liquidsoap in a single configure, make and make install procedure. You will still need the corresponding C libraries and their developement files, though.

You will then have to build the source.

Debian/Ubuntu packages

Liquidsoap is included in Debian and Ubuntu distributions:

• Debian packages
• Ubuntu packages

However, we maintain custom packages for liquidsoap, in order to enable features that are not available in those distributions, such as mp3 encoding:

• Debian stable packages
• Daily Debian packages

The daily packages are mostly aimed toward developers.

Mac OS X

You can download and build liquidsoap using macports. See the instructions.

Subversion repository (and other distributions)

If you want a cutting-edge version, you can use the subversion repository. To get a copy of it, just run:

svn co \
 https://savonet.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/savonet/trunk \
 savonet

You need then to bootstrap the configuration scripts:

./bootstrap

And then follow the build instructions.