BigBlueButton is an open-source web conferencing system that can be used for online learning and virtual meetings. It provides real-time audio, video, chat, and screen sharing capabilities.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install BigBlueButton on MXLinux Latest.
To install BigBlueButton on MXLinux Latest, you will need:
Before installing BigBlueButton, it is a good practice to update your system packages to their latest versions. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
BigBlueButton provides their own repository for easy installation. To download BigBlueButton, add their repository to your system by running the following command:
wget -qO- https://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/repo/bigbluebutton.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/xenial-220/ bigbluebutton-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bigbluebutton.list
After adding the repository, update your packages list and install BigBlueButton with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bigbluebutton
The installation process will take some time, depending on your internet connection speed.
After the installation is complete, start the BigBlueButton services by running the following command:
sudo systemctl enable bbb-{html5,gst-playback,webrtc}-fu
sudo systemctl start bbb-{html5,gst-playback,webrtc}-fu
You can check the installation by using the BigBlueButton default landing page. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/bigbluebutton/
.
If you see the BigBlueButton landing page, you have successfully installed BigBlueButton on MXLinux Latest.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install BigBlueButton on MXLinux Latest. BigBlueButton is an excellent web conferencing system that can be used for online learning and virtual meetings. Follow the steps carefully, and you will have BigBlueButton up and running in no time.
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