Here are simple instructions for building and installing Shairport Sync on a Raspberry Pi B, 2B, 3B, 3B+ or 4B. It is assumed that the Pi is running Raspbian Buster Lite – a GUI isn't needed, since Shairport Sync runs as a daemon program. For a more thorough treatment, please go to the README.md page.
In the commands below, note the convention that a #
prompt means you are in superuser mode and a $
prompt means you are in a regular unprivileged user mode. You can use sudo
("SUperuser DO") to temporarily promote yourself from user to superuser, if permitted. For example, if you want to execute apt-get update
in superuser mode and you are in user mode, enter sudo apt-get update
.
Do the usual update and upgrade:
# apt-get update