In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Prosody IM on POP! OS latest release. Prosody is a lightweight and flexible XMPP server that provides secure communication via instant messaging and voice/video calls. It is written in Lua programming language and easy to set up and maintain.
Before we start with the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites ready.
The first thing you want to do is update your system packages to the latest version available. To do this, open your terminal and execute the following command.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Prosody requires some dependencies to be installed to work correctly. Run the following command to install these dependencies.
sudo apt install lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev lua-filesystem lua-event lua-sec lua-zlib lua-expat
Now we are ready to download and install Prosody IM on our system. Execute the following commands one by one to accomplish this task.
wget https://prosody.im/files/prosody-0.11.9.tar.gz
tar zxvf prosody-0.11.9.tar.gz
cd prosody-0.11.9
sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install
To improve the security of your Prosody server, it is recommended to create a separate user for running the Prosody service. Execute the following command to create a new user named prosody.
sudo adduser prosody --system --group
Now that you have installed Prosody and created a user for it, it's time to configure Prosody to fit your needs. Prosody configuration file is located at /usr/local/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua. You can open this file in your favorite text editor and change the settings as per your requirement.
Finally, we are ready to start our Prosody server. To do this, execute the following command.
sudo prosodyctl start
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Prosody IM on your POP! OS system. You can now connect to your server using any XMPP client and start chatting securely.
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