Installing Galene on EndeavourOS Latest

Galene is a modern video conferencing system, powered by open source software. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Galene on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that you’ve:

• An up-to-date version of EndeavourOS Latest.
• Administrative access to your EndeavourOS system.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Galene requires some dependencies to launch. First, ensure that your system is up-to-date:

sudo pacman -Syu

Once that’s done, install the necessary packages:

sudo pacman -S \
    alsa-lib \
    ffmpeg \
    glib2 \
    gnutls \
    gobject-introspection \
    gtk3 \
    gtk-doc \
    json-glib \
    libsoup \
    meson \
    ninja \
    pciutils \
    postgresql-libs \
    pulseaudio \
    python \
    python-gobject \
    python-psycopg2 \
    util-linux \
    webkit2gtk \
    xorg-server-xvfb

Step 2: Install Galene

Now that we have all the dependencies installed, we can proceed to install Galene. Head to the Galene website, https://galene.org/downloads.html, and locate the appropriate version for your system.

wget https://github.com/galenetv/galene/releases/download/v0.3.6/galene-0.3.6.tar.gz

Once you’ve downloaded the package, extract its contents:

tar -xf galene-0.3.6.tar.gz

Now, navigate to the extracted directory and compile the package:

cd galene-0.3.6
meson --prefix=/usr .
ninja
sudo ninja install

Step 3: Run Galene

Now that Galene is installed, we can run the Galene server:

glib-compile-resources --generate-source resources.xml
./galene-server -d

Once the server is running, you can access http://localhost:8443/ in your web browser to begin using Galene.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have installed Galene – a powerful, open source video conferencing system, on EndeavourOS Latest. We hope that you find this helpful! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them in the discussion section below.

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