Liquidsoap has a large quantity of dependencies and can easily fail installation or upgrade if your system packages are out of date. We recommend updating system packages before any installation or upgrade to avoid these issues.
You may see these errors:
FAIL NginxRtmp - Liquidsoap ffmpeg video support
FAIL Liquidsoap version is UNKNOWN
WARN Liquidsoap might not be installed correctly, recommend reinstall.
If you have recently upgraded or installed MediaCP without updating your system packages you will may run into an issue with Liquidsoap. The best way to resolve these issues is to just completely reinstall Liquidsoap, you can follow these steps to do just that.
Update System Packages
Before reinstalling Liquidsoap software, you should ensure your system has all the latest updates.
CentOS
yum update
Debian
apt update && apt upgrade
Instructions
Reinstall liquidsoap
- Login as root user to SSH
- Run the following to reinstall Liquidsoap
/root/init --install-liquidsoap
Install custom version of Liquidsoap
Though we only support liquidsoap version 2.1.4 it is possible to install any branch/tag from liquidsoap using the following procedure. For example, the below procedure will install the 2.0.6 release. You can replace "2.0.6" with any branch/tag/version. It should be noted that running custom versions of Liquidsoap may cause issues which our team will be unable to resolve for you, this is only recommended for advanced users.
- Login to mediacp system account via SSH
su mediacp
- Change to mediacp home directory
cd ~
- Install/Update liquidsoap by pinning the source code
opam pin -y liquidsoap 2.0.6
- Check installed version
/usr/local/mediacp/liquidsoap/bin/liquidsoap --version
- Restart liquidsoap services
pkill liquidsoap; sleep 5; pkill -9 liquidsoap; mediacp cron "bitrate=1 autodj_restart=1"
