Introduction

This is a howto on installing, configuring and running TeamSpeak under Ubuntu-x86.

Thanks to JConnell and his tread for mostly all info on this subject: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=16361&highlight=TeamSpeak

Download TeamSpeak

To download the TeamSpeak client, open a terminal and execute one of these two commands:

wget ftp://213.202.254.114/teamspeak/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/teamspeak.org/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.tar.bz2

Or find it yourself on the TeamSpeak website

Install TeamSpeak

Open a terminal and cd to the directory where you saved the install file

Then run these commands:

tar -jxf ts2_client_rc2_2032.tar.bz2
cd ts2_client_rc2_2032
sudo chmod 755 setup.sh
sudo ./setup.sh

Choose this install path: /opt/TeamSpeak2RC2 (Should be the default)

Run TeamSpeak

You can create a link, which makes TeamSpeak run with one commands like this:

sudo ln -s /opt/TeamSpeak2RC2/TeamSpeak /usr/bin/

Now you can execute TeamSpeak, just by writing TeamSpeak

TeamSpeak links in Firefox

If you want to open teamspeak:// links with firefox then do this:

Launch firefox and type about:config in the address bar
Right-click and select New->String

Name: network.protocol-handler.app.teamspeak Value: TeamSpeak

Right-click and select New->Boolean

Name: network.protocol-handler.external.teamspeak Value: true

Now you can open teamspeak:// links, which will automaticly launch TeamSpeak and connect to the specified server when you click them!

Troubleshooting

If you are unable to get sound in TeamSpeak or TeamSpeak is hogging the sound from other applications, then you will need to run TeamSpeak with the aoss command, because the Linux version of TeamSpeak is based on OSS, which doesn't support software mixing, and therefor one needs to use alsa-oss, which channels OSS applications through ALSA, making them them work more or less like regular ALSA programs.

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