---
title: "Mumble"
icon: 'mumble.svg'
tags: ['service']
date: 2023-07-2
short_desc: 'Open Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat.'
---

[Mumble](https://mumble.info) is an open source, low latency and high quality voice chat software, being the best open source alternative to TeamSpeak.
VoIP communications are mandatory encrypted by default using OCB-AES128, it has integrations for gamers (like overlays), it's stable and it's resource friendly.

The server can also be run [behind Tor](https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorifyHOWTO/Mumble) without any issue.

## Installation

Mumble has a Debian repository for client and server, however it's very outdated so we are going to build the server instead.

**I suggest to build both binaries on your local machine and [transfer the `mumble-server` to your remote server using `spc`](#extra).**


Install dependencies:
```sh
apt install build-essential cmake pkg-config qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev libboost-dev libssl-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libprotoc-dev libcap-dev libxi-dev libasound2-dev libogg-dev libsndfile1-dev libspeechd-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libxcb-xinerama0 libzeroc-ice-dev libpoco-dev g++-multilib
```

Git clone the repo.

```sh
git clone https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble.git && cd mumble
```

Initialize all the submodules.

```
git submodule update --init
```

Create a build directory and run `cmake`. 
Cmake will create all the necessary files to build the mumble-server and client.

```sh
mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..
```

Build using `cmake`.

```sh
cmake
```

After the build you will now find a file named `mumble-server`, one `mumble` (which is the client) and a file named `mumble-server.ini` (aka the config file).

## Running your Mumble server

If you built it on local machine you can check out [how to move it to your remote server](#extra) first.

After that, start with making your `mumble-server` executable and move it in `/usr/bin`.

```sh
chmod +x mumble-server && mv mumble-server /usr/bin
```

Create a folder in `/etc/` move your config files there.

```sh
mkdir /etc/mumble && mv mumble-server.ini /etc/mumble
```

Now we can run the server passing the config and a superuser password that can be used to connect and authenticate as an administrator from any client

```sh
mumble-server -ini mumble-server.ini -supw <your_password>
```

Check if it's running in the backgroud with `ps aux`.

```sh
ps aux | grep mumble-server
```

You will have an output like this.

```sh
root   127181  0.1  0.1 261064 21640 ?        Sl   19:18   0:01 ./mumble-server
root   127689  0.0  0.1 112956 22572 ?        Sl   19:19   0:00 ./mumble-server
```

## Connecting to your mumble-server as a SuperUser

You will probably will be left with your `mumble` binary in the build folder on your local machine. 

Now you should make it executable and move it in the `/usr/bin` folder.

```sh
chmod +x mumble && mv mumble /usr/bin
```

Run it the GUI with one command.

```sh
mumble
```

You will have something like this opening up.

{{< img src="/pix/mumble/mumble-1.png" alt="connect window" >}}

Click on the button `Add New...` and fill out the information need to connect to your server.

{{< img src="/pix/mumble/mumble-2.png" alt="add server window" >}}

If you haven't edited the port, `64738` will be default one. 

Click on `Ok`, select your server from the list and click `Connect`.

**Now you are connected to your very own Mumble server as a SuperUser!**

---

## Extra

### Move binary with scp

Move your binary to the folder `~` of your remote server.

```sh
scp <your_binary> root@<your_server_ip>:~
```

---

Written by [NotMtth](https://notmtth.xyz) (Tor access warning)

Donate Monero at: `donate.notmtth.xyz` ([OpenAlias](https://openalias.org/))