Installing Teamspeak 3 Server on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

Fairly straight forward process. Spin up an Ubuntu Server instance (I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS). Console or SSH into your server. I run “sudo -i” (cause I’m ballsy and live life on the edge). Commands shown below can be copy/pasted after the “$”.

:~$ adduser --disabled-login teamspeak3

:~$ cd /tmp

:/tmp$ wget https://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.0.11.4/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.11.4.tar.gz
[find the latest version here: https://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/]

:/tmp$ tar xzf teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.11.4.tar.gz

:/tmp$ mv teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64 /etc/teamspeak3

:/tmp$ cd /etc

:/etc$ chown -R teamspeak3 /etc/teamspeak3
[sets teamspeak3 permissions on teamspeak3 folder]

:/etc$ cd teamspeak3
:/etc/teamspeak3$ cat > /etc/init.d/teamspeak
—-copy and paste below—-

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: teamspeak
# Required-Start: networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
 # Short-Description: TeamSpeak Server Daemon
# Description: Starts/Stops/Restarts the TeamSpeak Server Daemon
### END INIT INFO

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC=”TeamSpeak Server”
NAME=teamspeak
USER=teamspeak3
DIR=/etc/teamspeak3
DAEMON=$DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

cd $DIR
sudo -u teamspeak3 ./ts3server_startscript.sh $1

—-copy and paste above—-
[Press ENTER and then CTRL+D.]

:~$ chmod 755 /etc/init.d/teamspeak
[sets perms on the file to 755]

:~$ /etc/init.d/teamspeak start
[starts the server manually. Make note of your login and token. ]


Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server
TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file
root@BastardBox:/etc/teamspeak3#
------------------------------------------------------------------
I M P O R T A N T
------------------------------------------------------------------
Server Query Admin Account created
loginname= "serveradmin", password= "cxCXuJIh"
 ------------------------------------------------------------------

——————————————————————
I M P O R T A N T
——————————————————————
ServerAdmin privilege key created, please use it to gain
serveradmin rights for your virtualserver. please
also check the doc/privilegekey_guide.txt for details.

token=p27mO9XWlM783hdf37qJy6d3ffIgvJgetFIOICBB
——————————————————————

:~$ update-rc.d teamspeak defaults
[this will auto start upon server startup]

Reboot your server. Teamspeak should start. Log in and you should have admin/root privileges on your Teamspeak instance.

See my other article for running a Teamspeak bot.