Polaris is a music streaming application that allows users to easily access and play their music collections from various sources. This tutorial will guide you through the steps of installing Polaris on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation of Polaris, you need to have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install Git, which will be used to download the Polaris source code from the GitHub repository. You can install Git by running the following command:
sudo apk add git
Once you have Git installed, you can proceed to clone the Polaris repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/agersant/polaris.git
This will download the Polaris source code to a directory named "polaris" in your current working directory.
Before you can run Polaris, you need to install its dependencies. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apk add libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev
Finally, you can build and install Polaris by running the following commands:
cd polaris
make
sudo make install
This will compile Polaris and install it on your system.
Once installation is complete, you can run Polaris by executing the following command:
polaris
This will start the Polaris server and open the web interface in your default web browser. You can now log in to Polaris and start streaming your music collection.
Note: By default, Polaris runs on port 5050. If you need to change the port number, you can do so by modifying the "config.toml" configuration file located in the "polaris" directory.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Polaris on Alpine Linux Latest.
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