[Red5] Another Debian package for Red5 (hope this eases some install problems)

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Everyone,

Given the problems people are having installing red5, we can offer our
skills in building a Debian package to the project.

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance
education that uses red5 for real-time collaboration.  We have created
Debian packages for all the BigBlueButton components --  including the red5
server.

If you want to install red5 under Ubuntu using apt-get, you can use our red5
package by doing the following

wget http://archive.bigbluebutton.org/bigbluebutton.asc
sudo apt-key add bigbluebutton.asc
sudo echo "deb http://archive.bigbluebutton.org/ bigbluebutton main" >
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bigbluebutton.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install red5

What this red5 package contains:
    /etc/init.d/red5 to start and stop the server.
    /usr/share/red5/webapps/oflaDemo

What this red5 package does not contain (not needed to run as server):
    /usr/share/red5/doc
    /usr/share/red5/src

Please note it runs red5 as tomcat6 user (we also run tomcat6, so we decided
to run red5 in the same limited account to make it more secure). The install
scripts will automatically create a tomcat6 user.  This shouldn't matter
unless you are writing apps that need to write to other directories.  If you
are, then you probably know how to change the red5 user from tomcat6 to root
in /etc/init.d/red5.

For testing our red5 apps, to run the red5 on the console, we do the
following
    sudo /etc/init.d/red5 stop
    cd /usr/share/red5
    sudo -u tomcat6 ./red5.sh

We've been using this package for over a year.  We will be updating it when
0.9 comes out, so anyone using the above apt-get archive will receive an
automatic update.

Again, we would be happy to contribute the Debian scripts we used to build
this to the red5 project so there is an official red5 apt-get repository.
 We think red5 rocks!  And we've been down the road of working through
install headaches, which pushed us to figure out how to build Debian
packages in the first place.

Regards,... Fred
--
http://bigbluebutton.org/
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