Installing Galene on Linux Mint

Galene is an open-source video conferencing server that allows you to host secure video conferences. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Galene on Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

1. You need to have Linux Mint installed on your system.
2. You need to have root or sudo privileges in your Linux Mint system.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Before we start with the installation, we need to install some dependencies required by Galene. Open the command terminal from the Applications or press Ctrl+Alt+T and run the following command to install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc openssl libssl-dev pkg-config libsoup2.4-dev gtk-doc-tools libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgio2.0-cil-dev libglib2.0-doc libcairo2-dev libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-doc libcairo2-utils libcairo-gobject2

Step 2: Download and Install Galene

After installing the required dependencies, we can download the Galene source code from the official website (https://galene.org/) using the following command:

wget https://galene.org/galene-0.3.6.tar.xz

Then, we need to extract the downloaded file using the following command:

tar xf galene-0.3.6.tar.xz

Now, move to the extracted directory using the following command:

cd galene-0.3.6

After that, we can build and install the Galene using the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Step 3: Configure Galene

After the installation is complete, we need to configure Galene. We can do this by creating a configuration file located at /etc/galene/config.toml using the following command:

sudo mkdir /etc/galene
sudo nano /etc/galene/config.toml

Now, copy the following configuration into the editor:

[domain]
name = "yourdomain.com"
tls_certificate_file = "/path/to/cert.pem"
tls_private_key_file = "/path/to/key.pem"

[[listener]]
tcp = "0.0.0.0:8443"
tls = true

Replace the yourdomain.com with your domain name and replace the paths with your server certificates' paths. Save and close the file using Ctrl + X, Y.

Step 4: Running Galene

Finally, we can run the Galene server using the following command:

sudo /usr/bin/galene-server /etc/galene/config.toml

Galene is now running on your Linux Mint system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Galene on Linux Mint. Once installed, you can use Galene to host secure video conferences. If you encounter any issues with the installation, check the official documentation at https://galene.org/documentation/.

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