Jitsi Meet is an open-source application for video conferencing that allows you to host online meetings or webinars. In this tutorial, we will go over how you can install Jitsi Meet on Linux Mint.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your Linux Mint system:
You can install these using the following command:
sudo apt-get install git nodejs npm
The first step is to clone the Jitsi Meet repository from Github. To do that, run the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.git
This will clone the repository in your current working directory.
Now that we have the source code of Jitsi Meet, we need to install its required dependencies. Change your directory to the cloned repo and run the following command:
cd jitsi-meet
npm install
This should take a few minutes to complete.
Once all the dependencies have been installed, we need to configure the project. In the same directory run the following command:
npm run postinstall
This will create a new directory config.js with the default configuration in it.
Finally, we can start Jitsi Meet. Run the following command in the root directory of the cloned repo:
npm start
This will launch the Jitsi Meet application in your default browser. Enter the name of the meeting and click on the 'Go' button to join the meeting.
That’s it! You’ve successfully installed Jitsi Meet on Linux Mint. Now you can host or join online meetings and webinars without any difficulty.
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