Jitsi Video Bridge is a free, open-source video conferencing solution that enables real-time communication through video, audio, and chat. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Jitsi Video Bridge on Arch Linux.
Before we start with the installation, you need to make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
Follow the steps below to install Jitsi Video Bridge:
We will start by updating the Arch Linux system by running the following commands:
sudo pacman -Syu
This command will update the system to the most recent version.
Jitsi Video Bridge requires some dependencies to be installed on the system. These dependencies include the following:
Use the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo pacman -S git maven jdk-openjdk
Next, we will clone the Jitsi Video Bridge repository to our local system by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge
This command will create a directory named jitsi-videobridge in the current directory.
We will use Maven to build Jitsi Video Bridge. Navigate to the jitsi-videobridge directory and run the following command:
cd jitsi-videobridge/
mvn compile
This command will download all the required dependencies and build Jitsi Video Bridge.
After building Jitsi Video Bridge, we can now start it by running the following command:
sh ./jvb.sh --host=localhost --domain=jitsi.example.com --port=5347 --secret=YOUR_SECRET_HERE
Make sure to replace jitsi.example.com with the domain name of your Jitsi server, and replace YOUR_SECRET_HERE with your Jitsi server's secret.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Jitsi Video Bridge on Arch Linux. We started by updating the system, installing the required dependencies, cloning the Jitsi Video Bridge repository, building Jitsi Video Bridge, and finally starting it. With Jitsi Video Bridge installed, you can now host video conferences and enable real-time communication through video, audio, and chat.
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