Installing !Openmeetings on debian etch

31 Jan

Posted by: admin in: linux

First variant (works with lenny as well):

Download the following debian package: http://www.expressaas.com/distrib/release/red5-openmeetings_1.0.2760.noarch.deb

And install it using sudo dpkg -i red5-openmeetings_1.0.2760.noarch.deb command. All additional utilities, such as Openoffice, Ghostscript, Imagemagick and Swftools should be installed as described below.

Second variant (outdated):

this sample is rather outdated

the installation procedure (if you forget of all 3th party requirements) is as simple as the following:

donwload openmeetings-package (you can download it into your home-directory)
unzip it
cd /openmeetings-package/webapps/openmeetings/conf and configure the hibernate.cfg.xml
cd up again to /openmeetings-package/ run the red5.sh

that is all!

no copy of any dirs, no /etc/init.d/, ^^ In doubt see what is written down in here:http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/InstallationOpenMeetings There is no mention of any init.d-script or other copy actions.

In this how-to I’m going to descript way to install OpenMeetings on debian GNU/Linux Etch (4.0), Steps are following way:

What we need!
Install MySQL
Install xvfb and OpenOffice.org
Install ImageMagic & !Ghostscript
Install SwfTools
Install Java and red5
Download openlazslo
Install OpenMeetings
Installing must new version?
Configure OpenMeetings and place files
Start every thing
!Troobleshooting
Author

What We Need

In this article I will use aptitude to install packages, if you don’t have apptitude please install it before going forward :

$su
#apt-get update
#apt-get install aptitude

After aptitude we need Debian GNU/Linux, I use version 4.0 (code name Etch), befor installing any thing else I recommend you to create a directory and manage every thing from there:

#su
#mkdir /root/tmpOpenMeetings/
#cd  /root/tmpOpenMeetings/

Install !MySQL

OpenMeetings can work with wide range of databases, I will install OpenMeetings with MySQL, to install !MySQL server:

aptitude install mysql-server

Add/edit the following lines to /etc/mysql/my.conf to enable localization:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8

Install xvfb and OpenOffice

If you would like exchange Presentation and Office documentation in OpenMeetings, you will nedd xvfb and OpenOffice.org

#aptitude install xvfb  openoffice.org

Then edit Setup.xcu:

#vim  /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu

You should insert following lines after: <node oor:name=”Office”>:

    <prop oor:name=“ooSetupConnectionURL” oor:type=“xs:string”>
        <value>socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp</value>
    </prop>

Install ImageMagick and Ghostscript

ImageMagick is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting close to 100 image formats. It is mainly used to perform various transformation and conversion operations on images and Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems’ PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

To install this tools run:

 #aptitude install imagemagick  gs-gpl

Install SWFTools

SWFTools s a collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm. It is released under the GPL.

#aptitude install swftools

If you get this message: “Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “swftools” ” please download swftools directly from web with running:

#wget   http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/swftools/swftools_0.8.1-1_i386.deb

befor installing this ackage should install “libart-2.0-2 ” so run:

#aptitude install libart-2.0-2

and now install SWFTools:

#dpkg -i swftools_0.8.1-1_i386.deb

Install Java and Red5

red5 is a Open Source Flash Server that OpenMeetings based on, so you should install it, and befor installing red5 should install Java Runtime Environment and Java development Kit run:

#aptitude install sun-java5-bin
#aptitude install  sun-java5-demo
#

If aptitude gives you any error, please download all file with wget and then install

#wget http://ftp.tr.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-demo_1.5.0-13-1_i386.deb
#wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-14-1etch1_i386.deb
# wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-15-1_i386.deb
#dpkg -i sun-java5-demo_1.5.0-13-1_i386.deb sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-14-1etch1_i386.deb sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-15-1_i386.deb

Now download red5 for Debian GNU/Linux and install it:

#wget http://dl.fancycode.com/red5/0.6.3/debian/red5_0.6.3-1_all.deb
#dpkg -i red5_0.6.3-1_all.deb

openlazslo

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications. to installing it, run:

#wget http://download.openlaszlo.org/4.0.6/openlaszlo-4.0.6-unix.tar.gz
#tar -xvf openlaszlo-4.0.6-unix.tar.gz
#mv lps-4.0.6/ /opt/

Note: there is no need to install OpenLaszlo if you only use the application but don’t want to modify it.

Note: you might would like to have a look at this shell script to start/stop/restart/status, if yes you can use this how-to.