By default you can’t install TeamSpeak Server on a Raspberry Pi. That’s because TeamSpeak is made for x86 processors and Raspberry Pi only comes with ARM processors.
To install TeamSpeak Server on a Raspberry Pi you need to install an emulator. In other words you have to make your ARM processor understand packages made for x86 processors.
In this guide I will use the Box86 emulator.
Setup the Raspberry Pi for Box86
1: First we have to update the system with these two commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
2: Now we need to install all the necessary packages to compile Box86:
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake
3: Now clone the latest GitHub version:
git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
If you have a 64-bit operating system follow these steps. If your operating system is 32-bit; don’t!
(4): Add the 32-bit architecture to the package manager:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
(5): Update the package manager:
sudo apt update
(6): Install the needed packages:
sudo apt install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6:armhf libncurses5:armhf libstdc++6:armhf
Compile Box86
1: Change into the driectory where we downloaded Box86 to:
cd ~/box86
2: Make a new directory called ‘Build’ and change into it:
mkdir build
cd build
3: Now choose the right command for your Raspberry Pi and OS:
For Raspberry Pi 4, 32-bit:
cmake .. -DRPI4=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
For Raspberry Pi 4, 64-bit:
cmake .. -DRPI4ARM64=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
For Raspberry Pi 3:
cmake .. -DRPI3=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
For Raspberry Pi 2:
cmake .. -DRPI2=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
4: Now we have to compile Box86. This can take a very long time!
make -j$(nproc)
5: Once finished we have to install the compiled Box86 emulator:
sudo make install
6: Now we have to restart the systemd-binfmt service:
sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt
7: All we have to do now is reboot:
sudo reboot
Setup and install TeamSpeak Server
1: Start by updating:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
2: Install ‘jq’:
sudo apt install jq
3: Create user ‘teamspeak’:
sudo adduser teamspeak
Just hit Enter and skip through and confirm with Y(es).
4: Switch user to ‘teamspeak’:
sudo su - teamspeak
5: Download the latest Linux x86 version of TeamSpeak Server:
wget $(curl -Ls 'https://www.teamspeak.com/versions/server.json' | jq -r '.linux.x86.mirrors | values[]')
6: Extract the downloaded package:
tar xvf teamspeak3-server_linux_x86-*
7: Remove the package from where we extracted:
rm teamspeak3-server_linux_x86-*
8: Change into the TeamSpeak Server directory:
cd teamspeak3-server_linux_x86
9: If you agree to the TeamSpeak license agreement:
touch .ts3server_license_accepted
10: Start the server for the first time:
./ts3server
11: On the first startup it will post an admin token (privilege key) that you will need later in the TeamSpeak Client. Copy it and save it!
12: When you have copied the token you can shutdown the server for now by pressing Ctrl+C
13: Exit the ‘teamspeak’ user:
exit
Configure the server to start at boot/reboot
1: Create a service file:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/teamspeak3.service
2: Copy-paste the following into the service file:
[Unit] Description=TeamSpeak 3 Server After=network.target [Service] WorkingDirectory=/home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux_x86/ User=teamspeak ExecStart=/home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux_x86/ts3server Restart=always RestartSec=15 Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
3: Save and exit the file by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y and then Enter.
4: Reload systemctl daemon:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
5: Enable the TeamSpeak Server service:
sudo systemctl enable teamspeak3
6: Start the TeamSpeak Server:
sudo systemctl start teamspeak3
7: Check the status of the TeamSpeak Server:
sudo systemctl status teamspeak3
8: Exit by pressing Ctrl+C
Conclusion
Congratulations! If you have followed every step of this tutorial you should now have a working TeamSpeak3 Server running on your Raspberry Pi.
If you have any questions or comments please post them below.
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