I found a great guide to installing Ventrilo on Ubuntu 9.10, I followed the steps and it worked perfectly on my installation of 10.10 as well. It fills in all the gaps that official ventrilo installation guide has.
Source: Brandon Williams @ http://rocketeerbkw.com/content/installing-ventrilo-server-ubuntu-910-karmic-koala
If you’re running a 64bit version of Ubuntu, you must install the 32bit libs
# sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Create a user for ventrilo to run under
# sudo useradd ventrilo
Download the linux version to your home directory (or another temp directory of your choosing), extract the files and change current directory to what we just extracted
# tar -xzf ventrilo_srv-3.0.3-Linux-i386.tar.gz
# cd ventsrv
Move the vent binaries to /usr/bin and make them executable
# sudo mv ventsrv/ventrilo_srv /usr/bin/ventrilo_srv
# sudo mv ventsrv/ventrilo_status /usr/bin/ventrilo_status
# sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ventrilo_srv /usr/bin/ventrilo_status
Make a directory for the config files and then move them there.
Give ventrilo user access
# sudo mkdir /etc/ventrilo
# sudo mv ventrilo_srv.ini /etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv.ini
# sudo chown -R ventrilo:ventrilo /etc/ventrilo
Make vent start when computer boots
- Create the init.d script
- Copy the contents of this init.d script to that file
- Make it executable and add it to boot sequence
# sudo nano /etc/init.d/ventrilo
# sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ventrilo
# sudo update-rc.d ventrilo defaults
Test to see if it works
# sudo /etc/init.d/ventrilo start
You should see something like the following, where 21626 will be the process ID of vent server
* Starting VOIP server ventrilo
21626: old priority 0, new priority -5
[ OK ]
Ventrilo runs on port 3784 by default so if you are running this from a PC at your home you will likely need to forward that port in your router settings.
Works perfectly! Thanks for this tutorial.
Thank you for the init script. This all works perfectly on debian 6.
Thank you so much! It works!
Init script doesn’t work in Ubuntu 12.04 Server. Throws a renice usage blurb. Comment out the renice line, says it starts ok, but doesn’t actually start. No errors, nothing in the logs. Just nothing. Otherwise an awesome tutorial.
Init script was complaining for me in 12.04 as well but after the first manual stop and start it seems to not be complaining anymore. Wish I could root cause the problem.
This worked great on an Amazon AWS Ubuntu 12.04 server.
Works perfectly! Using 10.04 LTS
Thank you!
insserv: warning: script ‘K01ventrilo’ missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script ‘ventrilo’ missing LSB tags and overrides
i dont know what i do whrong… i have this problem if i do the command: sudo update-rc.d ventrilo defaults
so please can anyone help me
Thanks
Seems like it should work, but the script keeps giving me everything under “*)” instead of starting, stopping, or restarting; I entered the script exactly as is in the link, but something seems to me wrong on my end.
I’m on Kubuntu 12.10, but it should still work, I would think.
Thanks for the tutorial, worked pretty well