Owncast is a free, open-source and self-hosted live streaming software that allows you to easily stream video content to your audience. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Owncast on a Fedora server.
Before you start, you will need:
First, log in to your Fedora server via SSH and update all installed software packages to their latest versions.
sudo dnf update -y
Next, you need to install some required dependencies for Owncast to run correctly. Run the following command:
sudo dnf install -y curl git ffmpeg opus opus-tools
Now, clone the Owncast Git repository to your server using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/owncast/owncast.git
This will create a directory named owncast in the current working directory.
Owncast comes with a default configuration file named config.yaml.example, which needs to be copied to config.yaml and customized with your own settings. To do this, run the following commands:
cd owncast
cp config.yaml.example config.yaml
Now, open the config.yaml file in your preferred text editor and make any necessary changes based on your needs.
nano config.yaml
Note: You must set the admin_password value in the configuration file to access the Owncast administration panel.
Finally, to start Owncast, run the following command:
./owncast
This will start the Owncast web server on port 8080. You can access the Owncast web interface by going to http://
Note: If you want Owncast to run as a daemon, you can use a tool like systemd to manage the Owncast service.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Owncast on a Fedora server. Owncast provides a self-hosted and free way to stream video content to your audience.
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