Jitsi Meet is a free and open-source video conferencing software that allows you to hold online meetings, webinars, and video conferencing with your team or clients. In this tutorial, we will be installing Jitsi Meet on Clear Linux.
Before installing Jitsi Meet, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed:
Follow the steps below to install Jitsi Meet on Clear Linux:
Before installing any new packages, you should update Clear Linux to make sure that you have the latest versions of all packages. Open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo swupd update
Jitsi Meet is an open-source software, and it is hosted on GitHub. Therefore, we need to install Git to download the source code. Type the following command in the terminal to install Git:
sudo swupd bundle-add git
Now that we have installed Git, let's download the Jitsi Meet source code from GitHub. Type the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.git
To install Jitsi Meet, we need to navigate to the jitsi-meet folder that we downloaded in the previous step. Use the following command to navigate to the folder:
cd jitsi-meet/
Once you are inside the jitsi-meet folder, run the following command to install Jitsi Meet:
make
This command will install Jitsi Meet and all its dependencies.
Once Jitsi Meet is installed, you can run it using the following command:
make run
This command will start a local web server that you can access in your web browser. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000 to access Jitsi Meet.
Jitsi Meet is now installed and running on your Clear Linux machine. You can start using Jitsi Meet to hold video conferences and meetings. However, before you start using it, you may need to configure it to suit your requirements. To configure Jitsi Meet, you need to modify the configuration files in the jitsi-meet folder.
Jitsi Meet is a powerful video conferencing software that can be installed on Clear Linux with just a few steps. In this tutorial, we walked you through the process of installing Jitsi Meet on Clear Linux, and we showed you how to download, install, run and configure the software. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you!
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