Jitsi-meet: Centos installation steps

[dipenpatel235]

Hello...can you please provide steps for centos 6 64 bit installation ?
Thanks

[driesken]

Could be that a few things are missing, but this generally works for current Jitsi Meet on Centos/RHEL/Oracle Linux 7:

cd /
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.git
cd jitsi-meet/
yum install npm nodejs-legacy
npm install -g browserify
npm install -g exorcist
npm install -g uglifyjs
npm install -g browserify-shim
npm install -g clean-css
yum install npm nodejs-legacy
npm install

Edit Makefile:
NPM = npm
BROWSERIFY = /usr/bin/browserify
UGLIFYJS = /usr/bin/uglifyjs
EXORCIST = /usr/bin/exorcist
CLEANCSS = /usr/bin/cleancss

Perform the make:
make

[williammahecha]

I tried Driesken guide, but there are too many broken and deprecated packages. I hope there could be added an installation guide for Centos 7. To integrate to the multiple pbx linux distros.

[vincent-collier]

I have been able to install it on centOS 7 using the official guide https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/manual-install.md.

You need npm installed as they explain it on npm site: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#enterprise-linux-and-fedora. I supposed nodejs-legacy for debian to be version 6 for centos. I used Epel repository.

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo bash - 
yum install nodejs git npm
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.git
mv jitsi-meet meet
cd meet
npm install
make

That's all, I didn't change the Makefile.

[saghul]

Yep, that should be it!

[WisdomCode]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I am not able to install it on my CentOS 7 following both paths described above.
I am using most current of jitsi meet and CentOS.
The npm install throws errors, mainly they seem to suggest that I manually install react-native. I tried to do that in many ways, but it seems to be impossible, as it again asks for dependencies that are contradictory (when I install one it asks for another version of it and if I get that version it asks for the old one...)
When I continue with make it basically seem to accept, but the website doesnt work, as there are many javascript parts missing (so errors are thrown and screen remains a dark grey)
I am really at a loss with that, any experience on that?
Nodejs is installed as described above by vincent-collier, everything else was grabbed from yum repositories, updated to newest versions.

[emulk]

Hello, i have tryed to install jitsi-meet on centos, building from code and throught rpm package, and both of them don't work, building the source i give this error:
./node_modules/.bin/webpack -p
make: * [compile] Killed

using rpm: i have a lot of java errors on start
someone have a working guide on centos for jitsi ?

Thank you

[WisdomCode]

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile it myself after several hours of trying. Maybe somebody else was able to resolve it, I wasn't

Am 30. Juni 2018, 18:22, um 18:22, Orgest Shehaj [e-mail] schrieb:

Hello, i have tryed to install jitsi-meet on centos, building from code
and throught rpm package, and both of them don't work, building the
source i give this error:
./node_modules/.bin/webpack -p
make: * [compile] Killed

using rpm: i have a lot of java errors on start
someone have a working guide on centos for jitsi ?

Thank you

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[driesken]

I've recently compiled it on RHEL 7.4 from source and it is working fine. I'll try to post some instructions in the following days.

[emulk]

Hi drieseken, thank you so mutch for your answer, can you post how have you done, i'm trying really hard here but seams impossible to install it on centos, i have installed jitsi on ubuntu in less then 5 minuts, i don't understand why is so different.
Please comment how have you done or email me at orgest.[email protected].
Thank you

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[driesken]

Okay, so here are the commands I've used to compile and install Jitsi Meet, Jicofo, Videobridge etc. I don't know if anything has changed lately, but it should give you a start. I won't provide support since every setup is a bit of a struggle.

• Install latest version of Java

yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk
yum install java-1.8.0-devel

• Install Prosody (make sure you have installed npm)

> git clone https://github.com/bjc/prosody.git
> cd /prosody
> npm install node-stringprep
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> chown prosody:prosody *
> cd /var/run
> mkdir prosody
> chown prosody:prosody prosody/
> cd /var/log
> mkdir prosody
> chown prosody:prosody prosody/

• Install Luarock modules:

cd ~
wget http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases/luarocks-2.4.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf luarocks-2.4.3.tar.gz 
cd luarocks-2.4.3
./configure
make
make install
luarocks install luaexpat
luarocks install luadbi
luarocks install luadbi-sqlite3
luarocks install luafilesystem
luarocks install luasec OPENSSL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib64/
luarocks install luasocket
luarocks install lua-zlib
ln -s /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5 /usr/lib64/libevent.so (ols 7)
luarocks install luaevent EVENT_LIBDIR=/usr/lib64/ (possible error on missing event.h)

• Install lua-zlib (needed fo compression. Luarocks module threw an error)

> cd ~
> git clone https://github.com/brimworks/lua-zlib.git
> cd lua-zlib/
> make linux
> make install

Download Prosody modules (of kopieren uit ~/prosody-modules)

git clone https://github.com/andyet/otalk-server.git
cd otalk-server
cp -r mod* /prosody/modules (or where Prosody is)

• Download Apache Ant and Apache Maven and extract it to /tmp

cd /tmp
wget http://apache.cu.be//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.2-bin.tar.gz
tar xvf apache-ant-1.10.2-bin.tar.gz
wget http://apache.belnet.be/maven/maven-3/3.5.2/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.2-bin.tar.gz
tar xvf apache-maven-3.5.2-bin.tar.gz

• Compile Jicofo and Videobridge (git clone to root for example)

cd /jicofo
/tmp/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin/mvn -U clean package -DskipTests
/tmp/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin/mvn dependency:get -DartifactId=maven-ant-tasks -DgroupId=org.apache.maven -Dversion=2.1.3
/tmp/apache-ant-1.10.2/bin/ant -lib ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/2.1.3/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.jar dist.lin64
cp /tmp/jicofo/dist/linux/jicofo-linux-x64-build.SVN.zip /

• Install gcc

curl ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.9.2/gcc-4.9.2.tar.bz2 -O
yum install  gmp  gmp-devel  mpfr  mpfr-devel  libmpc  libmpc-devel
./configure --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++
make -j 4
make install

• Install nodejs (I've used node-v8.9.4.tar.gz)

./configure
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6

• Install Jitsi meet

npm install npm@latest -g
git clone git://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.git
cd jitsi-meet
npm install webpack -D
- To make the project you must force it to take the sources as 'npm update' will not do it.:
npm install
make (can take a long time)

[gstlouisgit]

It is unfortunate the above instructions are old and some things no longer work and I'm not sure I understand all the explanation here. I sure would love to get this working on centos7. If anyone has any other leads pleas share.

[OlegMalyutin]

Unfortunately same problem on centos7. rpm will be good.

[Pressyd]

Successful installation on CentOS 8 with latest update!
Most of the problems was with Prosody.

[gstlouisgit]

@Pressyd
could you share a little bit more here? Your steps, you problems with prosody? Once you got it install how did you start it up? In a browser like their example here https://meet.jit.si/

it would be a little more helpful then just saying succefull install

[Pressyd]

I will, still doing tests!
Stats on:
Centos 8, 8 VCPU,32 GB RAM,20 GB SSD, Nginx , all meetings are through API from outside server
193 Users, 24 meetings, 1 user in each meeting share a screen

[RamZallan]

@Pressyd would love to know how about how you installed + set it up! I followed the instructions above on Fedora Server 31 (had to install lots of -devel packages to fulfill requirements, and was confused about the Jicofo and Videobridge step. Would you mind walking through how you got it up and running? Thanks so much in advance, glad it worked for you!

[mrsid96]

@Pressyd , could you please share the script or please provide a walkthrough for the same, it would be very grateful.

[luixxiul]

Since the issue has been closed for a long time, the discussion about CentOS installation should be forwarded to https://community.jitsi.org/

[gstlouisgit]

@Pressyd is our only lead to get this working on centos. However this needs to be moved it would be nice to preserve our notifications if ever pressyd can get back to us... cross our fingers