Follow the below steps to add BigBlueButton Repositories to the server.
Pre-requisites
1. 2 GB of memory (4 GB is better)
2. Dual-core 2.6 GHz CPU (quad-core is better)
3. Ports 80, 1935, 9123 accessible
4. Port 80 is not used by another application
5. 50G of free disk space (or more) for recordings
To verify you have Ubuntu 10.04
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
If it returns something like this, you have Ubuntu 10.04
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS"
The locale must be set to en_US.UTF-8. To verify it:
$ cat /etc/default/locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
If you don’t see LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″, then do the following,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install language-pack-en $ sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Log out and log back into your session or restart your server. After the above step, do cat /etc/default/locale again and verify you see LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″.
Verify that port 80 is not in use by any other application.
$ lsof -i :80
Adding Repositories BigBlueButton and updating the server:
Add the BigBlueButton key
$ wget http://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/bigbluebutton.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add the BigBlueButton repository URL and ensure the multiverse is enabled
$ echo "deb http://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/lucid_dev_08/ bigbluebutton-lucid main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bigbluebutton.list $ echo "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
To update your server and to ensure you are running the latest version of the packages do the following
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install RUBY
You must have ruby for recording and playback. To check if Ruby is already installed,
$ dpkg -l | grep ruby
Make sure the version is 1.9.2p290.
$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553)
In case you do not have Ruby install the following dependencies.
$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libyaml-dev build-essential bison checkinstall libffi5 gcc checkinstall libreadline5 libyaml-0-2
Create a script to install Ruby.
$ vi install-ruby.sh
#!/bin/bash cd /tmp wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz tar xvzf ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz cd ruby-1.9.2-p290 ./configure --prefix=/usr\ --program-suffix=1.9.2\ --with-ruby-version=1.9.2\ --disable-install-doc make sudo checkinstall -D -y\ --fstrans=no\ --nodoc\ --pkgname='ruby1.9.2'\ --pkgversion='1.9.2-p290'\ --provides='ruby'\ --requires='libc6,libffi5,libgdbm3,libncurses5,libreadline5,openssl,libyaml-0-2,zlib1g'\ [email protected] sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ruby ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.9.2 500 \ --slave /usr/bin/ri ri /usr/bin/ri1.9.2 \ --slave /usr/bin/irb irb /usr/bin/irb1.9.2 \ --slave /usr/bin/erb erb /usr/bin/erb1.9.2 \ --slave /usr/bin/rdoc rdoc /usr/bin/rdoc1.9.2 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gem gem /usr/bin/gem1.9.2 500
To run the script
$ chmod +x install-ruby.sh $ ./install-ruby.sh
After installation, you should see the ruby interpreter output as 1.9.2p290 or later
$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553)
Check the gem version.
$ gem -v 1.3.7
Confirm that you can install gems.
$ sudo gem install hello Successfully installed hello-0.0.1 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for hello-0.0.1... Installing RDoc documentation for hello-0.0.1...
Install Bigbluebutton
$ sudo apt-get install bigbluebutton
Install API to check the server
$ sudo apt-get install bbb-demo
Later if you want to remove API demos
$ sudo apt-get purge bbb-demo
Do a clean restart
$ sudo bbb-conf --clean $ sudo bbb-conf --check
Stop Apache 2 and restart Nginx
$ service apache2 stop $ service nginx restart
Set IP for bigbluebutton server
$ bbb-conf --setip <ip_address_or_hostname>
The installation is complete now. Type in your IP address in a browser to access bigbluebutton server
