LiveKit is a WebRTC signaling server and client library that allows you to build live video and audio communication applications. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install LiveKit on Void Linux.
Before we proceed with the installation process, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install the dependencies required for LiveKit to run correctly. To do this, open your terminal and execute the commands below:
sudo xbps-install -y wget make gcc openssl-devel
The above command will install wget, make, gcc, and openssl-devel. These are the dependencies required to compile LiveKit from source.
LiveKit requires Redis server to maintain its state. To install Redis, execute the following command:
sudo xbps-install redis
LiveKit is written in Go programming language, and we need to install Go in order to compile it from source. To install Go, execute the following command:
sudo xbps-install go
Next, we need to clone the LiveKit repository from GitHub. To do this, execute the following command:
git clone https://github.com/livekit/livekit-server.git
This command will clone the LiveKit repository to your current directory.
After cloning the LiveKit repository, we need to build it. Change to the directory where the repository was cloned, and execute the following command:
cd livekit-server
make
The above command will build LiveKit, which may take some time depending on your system's speed.
After building LiveKit, you can start the server by executing the following command:
./livekit-server
This command will start the LiveKit server, which will be accessible from your web application at the address http://localhost:7880.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install LiveKit on Void Linux. We first installed the dependencies required for the server, then installed Redis to maintain state, and finally cloned the LiveKit repository and built the server. We also started the LiveKit server and made it accessible via the web. With this server in place, you can now proceed to build and deploy a live video or audio communication application.
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