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Installing Jitsi Meet on Debian Buster

Reviewed on 08 June 2023 • Published on 16 March 2020

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Jitsi-Meet
Debian-Buster

Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, open source video conferencing tool that does not require subscription or the need to create an account.

The tool provides features like:

screen sharing
presentations
inviting users to a conference through a custom URL
editing documents together using Etherpad
integrated chat

Security & Identity (IAM):

You may need certain IAM permissions to carry out some actions described on this page. This means:

you are the Owner of the Scaleway Organization in which the actions will be carried out, or
you are an IAM user of the Organization, with a policy granting you the necessary permission sets

Requirements:

You have an account and are logged into the Scaleway console
You have configured your SSH key
You have a Scaleway Instance running Debian Buster (for better performance, we recommend that you use an Instance with at least 4 GB of RAM)
You have a domain or subdomain pointed to your Instance

Note:

This tutorial shows the installation of Jitsi Meet on Debian Buster. If you prefer the installation of Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver, follow this tutorial.

Installing Jitsi Meet

Configure the hostname of the server corresponding to your domain or subdomain.

hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi
sed -i 's/^127.0.1.1.*$/127.0.1.1 jitsi.mydomain.tld jitsi/g' /etc/hosts
sed -i 's/^127.0.0.1.*$/127.0.0.1 localhost jitsi.mydomain.tld jitsi/g' /etc/hosts

Update the apt packet cache and upgrade the software installed on the Instance to the latest version available on the Debian repositories.
```
apt update && apt upgrade
```
Install an Nginx web server. The Jitsi installation tool handles the Nginx configuration if it is present on the system.
```
apt install -y nginx
systemctl start nginx.service
systemctl enable nginx.service
```
Important:
If you have not installed Nginx or Apache, Jitsi Meet will automatically install Jetty during the installation.

Download the APT key and set up the repositories of Jitsi:

wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | apt-key add -
sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list"
apt update

Launch the installation of Jitsi Meet.
```
apt install -y jitsi-meet
```
When asked:
- Enter the FQDN of your Instance. For example jitsi.mydomain.tld and press Enter.
- Choose the Generate a new self-signed certificate (You will later get a chance to obtain a Let's Encrypt certificate) option as a SSL certificate and press Enter.
Run the following script to generate a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your Instance:
```
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
```
Tip:
If the generation of the Let’s Encrypt certificate fails, run the following command: dpkg-reconfigure jitsi-meet-web-config to reconfigure the package jitsi-meet-web-config before relaunching the certificate request.
Open a Web-browser and type the FQDN of your Instance, for example: https://jitsi.mydomain.tld. The following screen displays:
Enter a name for your conference and press Start meeting to enter the conference room.