LiveKit is a software package that helps you build and deploy real-time audio and video communication applications. It is a powerful and easy-to-use toolkit that includes everything you need to create high-quality communications at scale.
In this tutorial, we will explain how to install LiveKit on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before you begin with the installation process, you need to fulfill the following requirements:
To start the installation process, we need to install some dependencies. Open the terminal application and execute the following command to install the required packages using the Zypper package manager:
sudo zypper install -y gcc-c++ make openssl-devel scons pkg-config
LiveKit is written in Go, so we need to install it before we can proceed to install LiveKit. Use the following commands to download and install the latest version of Go on the system.
cd /tmp
wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.17.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' | sudo tee -a ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin' | sudo tee -a ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Now that we have installed the dependencies and Go, let’s install LiveKit using the following commands:
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/livekit/livekit-server/releases/download/v0.9.6/livekit-server-0.9.6-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzvf livekit-server-0.9.6-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /usr/local/livekit-server-0.9.6-linux-amd64/livekit-server /usr/local/bin/livekit-server
To verify the installation, run the following command:
livekit-server version
This command should return LiveKit's version number as below:
Version: v0.9.6
In this tutorial, we have explained the steps that are required to install LiveKit on OpenSUSE Latest. LiveKit can be used for a wide range of real-time communication applications. You can start building your own apps with LiveKit after successfully installing it.
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