Answered How do I install Team Speak 3

How do I install Team Speak 3?
I'm new to linux. Could not find any resources about teamspeak.Please help me.

 

Howdy asamet003,
Teamspeak 3 is not open source, therefore you can't find the installer in apt-get/softwarecenter nor PPA. Just install ts3 manually this way:

Installation

Download from teamspeak.com (Client 32 or 64bit)
Example Filename: TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.18.2.run (64bit)

Now give executable rights and run the installation. The fastest way doing that is inside of your terminal.

1. Open the terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
2. cd ~/Downloads
3. chmod u+x TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.18.2.run
   
4. ./TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.0.18.2.run

The installation does start now.

• Press ⏎ or SPACE to read through the licence information
• Hit Q to finish this
• At the question "Do you accept the license? (yes/no)" type "yes" or "y" and ⏎

Now, there appears another folder in ~/Downloads/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ with the startscript ts3client_runscript.sh.
You can move this folder wherever you want. Start Teamspeak with the Terminal or in your File Browser.

Start TS3

Start TS3, the terminal way:

• cd ~/Downloads/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/
  
• ./ts3client_runscript.sh
• (Teamspeask does start now)

Start TS3, the file browser way:



Create Applications Menu entry

Create a file called teamspeak3.desktop inside of /usr/share/applications with this content, but edit the full path Exec/Icon:

Code (Text):

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Teamspeak 3 Client
GenericName=Teamspeak
Comment=Speak with friends
Exec=/home/YOUR-USER-NAME/Downloads/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh
Icon=/home/YOUR-USER-NAME/Downloads/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/styles/classic/logo-128x128.png
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Categories=Network
StartupNotify=true

The result:


That's it

Optional: beautiful icon

The icon provided from this teamspeak installer is really, really ugly.... You may want to download another one and reference that Icon= inside teamspeak3.desktop. For example this icon here:

http://orig12.deviantart.net/ad6b/f/2012/124/c/3/teamspeak_by_maxumipsum70-d4yhm6c.png

Result:

 

OMG,Thank you so much.

 

Help. Whenever I try to make the teamspeak.desktop file using "scratch" the file is deleted before I can save it to the directory /usr/share/applications
How do I create the teamspeak.desktop file you mention in this tutorial? I'm using Loki.

Found the answer:

sudo scratch-text-editor in the /usr/share/applications folder.

Thanks.

 

Hi wekesa, i guess you must open scratch with sudo, to have the permission. Enter in your terminal: sudo scratch-text-editor , and then just create & save the file in /usr/share/applications. works? ?

 

Thank you. That worked!