BigBlueButton is a web conferencing platform that allows for online collaboration and virtual learning. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install BigBlueButton on the latest Fedora CoreOS.
We will first install the required packages for BigBlueButton using the following command:
sudo rpm-ostree install gnu-free-fonts liberation-fonts
Next, we will add the BigBlueButton repository to Fedora CoreOS using the following command:
sudo curl https://bigbluebutton.org/repo/rpm/bigbluebutton.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/bigbluebutton.repo
Now, we can install BigBlueButton using the following command:
sudo dnf install -y bigbluebutton
We will now configure BigBlueButton by editing the bbb-conf file using the following command:
sudo nano /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties
You can configure the properties according to your preferences or leave them as default. Save the file once you are done.
Finally, we will start the BigBlueButton services using the following command:
sudo bbb-conf --restart
Congratulations! You have now successfully installed BigBlueButton on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can access it by navigating to http://localhost:80/ in your web browser.
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