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Installing Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (18.04 LTS)

Reviewed on 24 May 2023 • Published on 16 March 2020

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Jitsi Meet is an open-source video conferencing solution, providing virtual meeting rooms for remote team meetings. The sofware provides high video and audio quality and supports fully encrypted connections using TLS/SSL and Let’s Encrypt certificates.

The tool provides features similar to commercial solutions, including:

Sharing of desktops, presentations, and more
Inviting users to a conference via a simple, custom URL
Editing documents together using Etherpad
Trading messages and emojis while video conferencing, with 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 created an Instance that runs Ubuntu Bionic Beaver
For best performances of Jitsi Meet, an Instance with at least 4GB RAM is recommended
You have a domain or subdomain pointed to your Instance

Note:

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

Installing Jitsi Meet

Connect to your Instance via SSH.
Configure the hostname of the server corresponding to your domain / subdomain name. Replace jitsi.mydomain.tld with the subdomain pointed to your Instance.
```
hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi
sed -i 's/^127.0.1.1.*$/127.0.1.1 jitsi.mydomain.tld jitsi/g' /etc/hosts
```
Update the software already installed on the system:
```
apt update && apt upgrade -y
```
Install a Nginx server before installing Jitsi Meet. The Nginx server will serve as a reverse proxy for the Jitsi web interface. The Jitsi installation tool will take care of the configuration of Nginx, if it is present on the system. Run the following commands to install and enable Nginx:
```
apt install -y nginx
systemctl start nginx.service
systemctl enable nginx.service
```
Important:
If Nginx or Apache is not present on the system, Jitsi Meet will automatically install Jetty during the installation.

Download the APT key and setup the repositories of Jitsi, to install the software with apt.

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 -y

Launch the installation of Jitsi Meet.
```
apt install -y jitsi-meet
```

During the installation you will be prompted to:

Enter the FQDN of your Instance. For example jitsi.mydomain.tld and press Enter:

Choose the SSL certificate option Generate a new self-signed certificate (You will later get a chance to obtain a Let's Encrypt certificate) and press Enter.

Run the script /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh to obtain a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your Instance:
```
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
```

During the certificate request, you are asked to enter your e-mail address to receive notifications regarding your certificate. 8. Your private Jitsi Meet Instance is ready for a first conference call. Open a Web-browser and type the FQDN of your Instance, for example: https://jitsi.mydomain.tld. The following screen will appear:

Enter a name for your conference and press Go to enter the conference room. It is now possible to share the link, to set a password, configure the audio and video quality and more for the conference.

Important:

Jitsi requires access to your camera and microphone. Authorize the use of these devices on your computer when prompted to do so by your web browser.

For more information about Jitsi Meet and advanced configuration of the tool, refer to the official Jitsi documentation.