Red5 on Ubuntu 9.04 – Thanks to BigBlueButton!
Found the BigBlueButton project (http://bigbluebutton.org/) the other day – very interesting!
Not at least that they have solved the tricky red5 installation very in a way that hopefully will find it’s way back to red5.org very soon… Their full installation uses nginx web server (http://nginx.net) instead of Apache, but here’s a way to pick the red5 raisin out of the big blue cookie:
- wget http://archive.bigbluebutton.org/bigbluebutton.asc
- sudo apt-key add bigbluebutton.asc
- echo “deb http://archive.bigbluebutton.org/ bigbluebutton main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bigbluebutton.list
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install red5
Thank you, Fred and others at BigBlueButton!
Now, let’s find out if this works on a Debian Lenny too…
Thanks for the kind words. We’ve got a few other folks asking us for support for Debian Lenny.
We need to modify existing Ubuntu packages so Debian is happy with a similar install command. That will happen sometime shortly after our upcoming release. Also, I’ve promised the Red5 folks that we’d help them with their installers.
We definitely want to give back to the great Red5 community.
Cheers,… Fred