

Packages are signed by the openSUSE OBS multimedia project GPG key.Packages are built with openSSL enabled, to ease setting up HTTPS streaming/access.You can think of it as a “PPA” or whatever your distro calls this. That can be added to the distro package manager. provides official builds of latest Icecast, packaged for various distributions, using their.In most cases packaging will also provide necessary scripts/files to make Icecast start as a service on boot.įor details please refer to the package repository section of your distribution’s fine manual.

This is the preferred way to install Icecast, as distribution packaging is tuned to make Icecast fit well into your system. Most current Linux and Unix distributions provide either prebuilt binary packages or a way to build your own package of Icecast.
