This chapter will serve as an installation guide for the software that will be used to store streamed videos and to serve up both the audio and video files to any device on the network, either BB or computers or tablets/phones. However, first some "housekeeping" needs to be done to the packages that were installed in the last chapter. For this, we will do the following:
First, display the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces
file. Run the following command:
cat /etc/network/interfaces
If the board is configured to use DHCP services (the default configuration), dhcp
appears at the end of the following line:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
If the board is configured to use static IP settings, static
appears at the end of the line instead of dhcp
.
The following screenshot shows the output of the cat /etc/network/interfaces
command:
Now, create a backup of the /etc/network/interfaces
file by running the following command:
sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.backup
Now, edit the interfaces
file with nano, as follows:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Change the preceding command line to this:
iface eth0 inet static
Now, enter the following command in the terminal:
ifconfig
On the command line, you will see something similar to what is shown in the following screenshot: