How to Install Teamspeak Server in Ubuntu

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.0.12.4/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.0.12.4.tar.bz2
--2016-11-29 05:48:20--  http://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.0.12.4/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.0.12.4.tar.bz2
Resolving dl.4players.de (dl.4players.de)... 85.25.26.27, 85.25.26.25, 85.25.26.26
Connecting to dl.4players.de (dl.4players.de)|85.25.26.27|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6670947 (6.4M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘ teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.0.12.4.tar.bz2’ 

teamspeak3-server_linux_amd6 100%[=============================================> ]   6.36M   237KB/s    in 31s     

2016-11-29 05:48:52 (210 KB/s) - ‘ teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.0.12.4.tar.bz2’  saved [6670947/6670947]

Once the TeamSpeak is downloaded, extract it.

root@linuxhelp:~# tar xvf teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-3.0.12.4.tar.bz2 
teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/
teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/ts3server
teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/doc/
teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/doc/accounting.txt
teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/doc/privilegekey_guide.txt
.
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teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh
Immediately change directory as follows,

root@linuxhelp:~# cd teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64
root@linuxhelp:~/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64#

Copy all the current working directory and then send it to the /home/teamspeak user.

root@linuxhelp:~/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64# cp * -R /home/teamspeak

Then change the directory to /root.

root@linuxhelp:~/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64# cd ..
root@linuxhelp:~#

Remove the extracted teamspeak3 directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# rm -rf teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64*

Change the ownership of /home/teamserver.

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R teamspeak:teamspeak /home/teamspeak

Here you need to create a startup script to start the TeamSpeak server software automatically on boot. Create and open the file in your text editor.

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /lib/systemd/system/teamspeak.service
Copy the following content into the startup script file :
[Unit]
Description=Team Speak 3 Server
After=network.target
 
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/teamspeak/
User=teamspeak
Group=teamspeak
Type=forking
ExecStart=/home/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh start inifile=ts3server.ini
ExecStop=/home/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh stop
PIDFile=/home/teamspeak/ts3server.pid
RestartSec=15
Restart=always
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start and enable the TeamSpeak server.

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl --system daemon-reload
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl start teamspeak.service
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl enable teamspeak.service
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/teamspeak.service to /lib/systemd/system/teamspeak.service.

Execute the following command to configure the firewall for the following ports 9987 UDP, 10011 TCP and 30033 TCP.

root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 9987 -j ACCEPT
root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p udp --sport 9987 -j ACCEPT
root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 30033 -j ACCEPT
root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 30033 -j ACCEPT
root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 10011 -j ACCEPT
root@linuxhelp:~# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 10011 -j ACCEPT

To Manage TeamSpeak Server

Connect TeamSpeak server with the client software then you will be prompted to enter a privilege key for administrative access.

Note that this key can only be used one time.

root@linuxhelp:~# cat /home/teamspeak/logs/ts3server_*
2016-11-29 00:34:43.408194|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   |TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.0.12.4 (2016-04-25 15:16:45)
2016-11-29 00:34:43.408346|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   |SystemInformation: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 Binary: 64bit
2016-11-29 00:34:43.408422|INFO    |ServerLibPriv |   |Using hardware aes
2016-11-29 00:34:43.438479|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   |dbPlugin name:    SQLite3 plugin, Version 2, (c)TeamSpeak Systems GmbH
2016-11-29 00:34:43.438581|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   |dbPlugin version: 3.8.6
2016-11-29 00:34:43.509640|INFO    |DatabaseQuery |   |checking database integrity (may take a while)
2016-11-29 00:34:43.599370|INFO    |SQL           |   |db_CreateTables() tables created
2016-11-29 00:34:43.806363|WARNING |Accounting    |   |Unable to find valid license key, falling back to limited functionality
2016-11-29 00:34:45.724291|INFO    |              |   |Puzzle precompute time: 1821
2016-11-29 00:34:45.736628|INFO    |FileManager   |   |listening on 0.0.0.0:30033
2016-11-29 00:34:45.737717|INFO    |VirtualSvrMgr |   |executing monthly interval
2016-11-29 00:34:45.738312|INFO    |VirtualSvrMgr |   |reset virtualserver traffic statistics
2016-11-29 00:34:45.913675|INFO    |CIDRManager   |   |updated query_ip_whitelist ips: 127.0.0.1, 
2016-11-29 00:34:45.914196|INFO    |Query         |   |listening on 0.0.0.0:10011
2016-11-29 00:34:45.909461|INFO    |VirtualServer |1  |listening on 0.0.0.0:9987
2016-11-29 00:34:45.910329|INFO    |VirtualServer |1  |client ' server' (id:0) added privilege key for servergroup ' Server Admin' (id:6)
2016-11-29 00:34:45.910364|WARNING |VirtualServer |1  |--------------------------------------------------------
2016-11-29 00:34:45.910380|WARNING |VirtualServer |1  |ServerAdmin privilege key created, please use the line below
2016-11-29 00:34:45.910394|WARNING |VirtualServer |1  |token=mwrxLf4OOHRLbwV0RiENaXqsBc3nRdvU4UfgxU4c
2016-11-29 00:34:45.910408|WARNING |VirtualServer |1  |--------------------------------------------------------

ServerAdmin privilege key created