Audiobookshelf is a digital audiobook player that is designed for Linux systems. In this tutorial, we will go over the steps to install Audiobookshelf on Arch Linux.
Before we start, ensure that you have the following:
Follow the below steps to install Audiobookshelf on your Arch Linux system:
Before we proceed with Audiobookshelf installation, we need to make sure that the required packages are installed on our system. Run the following command to install the prerequisites.
sudo pacman -Syu libcanberra ffmpeg gtk3 libdbusmenu-glib libappindicator-gtk3 libappindicator-sharp
Next, we will download Audiobookshelf for the official website. Use the following wget command to download the Audiobookshelf tarball on your Arch Linux system.
wget http://archive.audiobookshelf.org/audiobookshelf-1.6.0-beta.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, we will extract the downloaded tarball to our system's downloads directory using the following tar command.
tar -xvf audiobookshelf-1.6.0-beta.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads/
After the extraction of the tarball archive, we will now install the Audiobookshelf package. Use the following command to install the Audiobookshelf package on your Arch Linux system.
cd ~/Downloads/audiobookshelf-1.6.0-beta
sudo make install
The Audiobookshelf is now installed on your Arch Linux system. You can launch the Audiobookshelf using the following command in your terminal.
audiobookshelf
In this tutorial, we have covered the steps to install Audiobookshelf on Arch Linux. Once the installation is complete, you can launch the Audiobookshelf on your system and start listening to your audiobooks.
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