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This how-to is based on this how-to written in Spanish for the 1.5 rc1 openmeetings version.

First we need to add the partner repositories, editing the sources.list file and removing the comments for the partner lines

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update

Then install the necessary packages

sudo apt-get install -y java-package sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre mysql-server openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc

sudo apt-get install -y openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-math imagemagick gs-gpl libart-2.0-2 libt1-5 zip unzip bzip2 subversion git-core checkinstall

sudo apt-get install -y yasm texi2html libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libmp3lame-dev libsdl1.2-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev zlib1g-dev libogg-dev sox libvorbis0a libvorbis-dev libgsm1 libgsm1-dev libfaad2 flvtool2 lame swftools

Now, for the ffmpeg, it is necessary to download, compile and install it:

wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.6.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ffmpeg-0.6.1.tar.gz
cd ffmpeg-0.6.1/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libxvid –enable-libvorbis –enable-libgsm –enable-libfaad –enable-libfaac –enable-gpl –enable-nonfree
make
sudo checkinstall

Now that all the dependencies for Openmeetings are met, let’s start the Openmeetings installation.

Get openmeetings  (this includes the Red5 server):

wget http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_6_rc1_r3621.zip

Extract it and move it to /opt

unzip openmeetings_1_6_rc1_r3621.zip
sudo mv red5 /opt/

Change owner to nobody

sudo chown -R nobody: /opt/red5

Make all the scrips executable

sudo chmod +x /opt/red5/*.sh
sudo chmod +x /opt/red5/webapps/openmeetings/jod/*.sh

Now let’s create the startup script for openmeetings:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/red5

Paste the following code:

#! /bin/sh
#
# red5 red5 initscript
#
# Author: Simon Eisenmann .
#
set -e
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC=”Red5 flash streaming server”
NAME=red5
RED5_HOME=/opt/red5
DAEMON=$RED5_HOME/$NAME.sh
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
# Read config file if it is present.
if [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ]
then
. /etc/default/$NAME
fi
#
# Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
d_start() {
start-stop-daemon –start -c nobody –pidfile $PIDFILE –chdir $RED5_HOME –background –make-pidfile –exec $DAEMON
}
#
# Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
d_stop() {
start-stop-daemon –stop –quiet –pidfile $PIDFILE –name java
rm -f $PIDFILE
}
case “$1″ in
start)
echo -n “Starting $DESC: $NAME”
d_start
echo “.”
;;
stop)
echo -n “Stopping $DESC: $NAME”
d_stop
echo “.”
;;

restart|force-reload)
echo -n “Restarting $DESC: $NAME”
d_stop
sleep 1
d_start
echo “.”
;;

*)
echo “Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}” >&2
exit 1
;;

esac
exit 0
exit 0

(above code available here)

Now the same thing for openoffice startup script:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/openoffice

Paste the following code:

#!/bin/bash
# openoffice.org headless server script
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30
# description: headless openoffice server script
# processname: openoffice
#
# Author: Vic Vijayakumar
# Modified by Federico Ch. Tomasczik
#
OOo_HOME=/usr/bin
SOFFICE_PATH=$OOo_HOME/soffice
PIDFILE=/var/run/openoffice-server.pid
set -e
case “$1″ in
start)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo “OpenOffice headless server has already started.”
sleep 5
exit
fi
echo “Starting OpenOffice headless server”
$SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp” & > /dev/null 2>&1
touch $PIDFILE
;;
stop)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo “Stopping OpenOffice headless server.”
killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
rm -f $PIDFILE
exit
fi
echo “Openoffice headless server is not running.”
exit
;;
*)
echo “Usage: $0 {start|stop}”
exit 1
esac
exit 0

(above code available here)

Make both scripts executable:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/red5
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/openoffice

Now let’s make both services start automatically:

sudo update-rc.d red5 defaults
sudo update-rc.d openoffice defaults

Almost done, now to create openmeetings database (we have created a database user named openmeetings with the password password):

echo “CREATE USER openmeetings@localhost;” | mysql -u root -p
echo “CREATE DATABASE openmeetings DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8′;” | mysql -u root -p
echo “GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmeetings.* TO ‘openmeetings’@'localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH GRANT OPTION;” | mysql -u root -p
echo “FLUSH PRIVILEGES;” | mysql -u root -p

And now configure openmeetings to use the database user created above:

sudo nano /opt/red5/webapps/openmeetings/conf/hibernate.cfg.xml

In the User / Password section, configure the correct database username (openmeetings) and password (password)

Now start openmeetings and openoffice:

sudo /etc/init.d/red5 start
sudo /etc/init.d/openoffice start

Go to a browser and point to the following link:

http://[server ip]:5080/openmeetings/install

Press “Continue with step 1”

Then, fill the following fields:

Username
Userpass
Email
User time zone
Name
Default language

Then, finally click on the “Install” button, and that’s it!

Please post your comments and suggestions

I’ve made a new VMWare image running Openmeetings, V1.6 RC1, available here (the previous one is still available here). There is also a how-to that I made during the VMWare image creation, if you are interested.

The operating system is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition, the login credentials are administrator / password. The same username and password was used for the Openmeetings login. MySQL root password is password. Openmeetings database user credentials are openmeetings / password. All functions are configured, including OpenOffice server for document conversion.

When starting the VM, VMWare will ask if the VM was moved or copied. I suggest to choose ‘moved’, if you choose ‘copied’, VMWare will create a new MAC Address for the network interface and the VM will start with no network interface (it has to be manually reconfigured to match the new MAC Address)

The VM is using DHCP (you will have to execute ifconfig to know its IP address and have a DHCP server running in your network). If you need to configure a fixed IP address you have to manually reconfigure the network interface.

After having the image running, use the following URL to access it: http://[ip address]:5080/openmeetings

Login using the credentials administrator / password

Choose the tab “Administration” and then “Configuration”. Now configure at least the SMTP server, port, system email address, email username and email userpass to enable the email notifications.