Apache Open Meeting Installation(Ubuntu)

Hari Om Pal
1 min readMay 12, 2017

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Apache OpenMeetings is a software used for online meeting, Interview and Webconferencing.

Installation Step

  1. Upgrade & Update OS
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade
  2. Open Meeting Require Java. So Install Java
    sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
  3. LibreOffice Installation
    sudo apt-get install libreoffice
  4. Installation ImageMagic, Sox and Swftools
    a) sudo apt-get install imagemagick gdebi libgif4 libjpeg62 synaptic zlib1g-dev liboil0.3 unzip make build-essential
    b) wget -P /tmp/ http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/s/swftools/swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
    c) chmod a+x /tmp/swftools_0.9.0–0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
    d) sudo dpkg -i /tmp/swftools_0.9.0–0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
    e) sudo dpkg -i /tmp/swftools_0.9.0–0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
    f) sudo dpkg -i /tmp/swftools_0.9.0–0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
  5. Adobe Flash Player
    sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
  6. JOD Converter
    cd /opt
    wget http://jodconverter.googlecode.com/files/jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-4-dist.zip
    unzip jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-4-dist.zip
  7. FFMPEG
    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
  8. MySQL
    sudo apt-get install mysql-server
  9. Installl OpenMeeting
    mkdir /opt/red5315
    cd /opt/red5315
    wget http://apache.rediris.es/openmeetings/3.0.7/bin/apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
    unzip apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
    rm -f apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
    cd /opt/red5315/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/lib
    wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.36/mysql-connector-java-
    5.1.36.jar
    Now Edit the following file
    gedit /opt/red5307/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
    Update the username and password of mysql
  10. Start MySQL
    /etc/init.d/mysql start
  11. Install Red5
    wget https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27838216/red5-ubdeb2

    chmod +x red5-ubdeb2
    mv red5-ubdeb2 /etc/init.d/
    sudo /etc/init.d/red5-ubdeb2 start

Two line will appear
start-stop-daemon: — start needs — exec or — startas
Try ‘start-stop-daemon — help’ for more information.

Your Server is ready

Now Open this link http://localhost:5080/openmeetings/install

Apache Meeting is ready

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