==== Installing Red5 on Linux ====

This is simple installation instruction.
it can be done as unprivilaged user (you might want sudo to root for some commands - but you don't really have to - you'll just need to provide full length paths)


you need to have:
<code>
  subversion (if you want trunk version instead of last stable)
  java - jdk and sdk
  ant 1.7 - curently not in debian etch repositories so i'm compiling it from source
</code>

Install Apache Ant [[http://ant.apache.org|Ant]] 1.7: 
<code>
  wget http://apache.mirror.transip.nl/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.gz
  tar -zxf apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.gz
  sudo mv apache-ant-1.7.0 /opt/ant # you don't need  this
  export ANT_HOME=/opt/ant
  sudo ln -s /opt/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant # shortcut - you sould now be able to use ant
</code>

now let's get red5
<code>
  svn co http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/red5/java/server/trunk red5

  #or

  wget http://dl.fancycode.com/red5/0.6.3/src/red5-0.6.3.tar.gz
  tar -zxf red5-0.6.3.tar.gz
  mv red5-0.6.3 red5
</code>

now we have red5 directory containing red5 sources.

next step is compilation - before that we might want to provide proper patches to java and ant

<code>
  export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/
  export ANT_HOME=/opt/ant/ # or other directory if you don't have root
</code>

now let's compile

<code>
  cd red5
  /opt/ant/bin/ant prepare 
  /opt/ant/bin/ant build
</code>

now directory "dist" contains compiled and ready to run server

<code>
  cd dist 
  sh red5.sh

  # or (no idea if it works - but someone changet it - so i guess mayby it works
  # ant server
</code>

red5 should now run http server on port 5080 and rtmp service on port 1935

so let's navigate to:

http://localhost:5080/demos/port_tester.swf

and check if everything is working.
for me it's, and I hope for you it'll work too.

debian tutorial was preety confusing, and I hope I made it more clear