Open meeting is a software that is used for web conferencing, online training. The following guidelines will show how to install openmeeting in your linux server.

+ First, we will have to check whether mysql is installed in the server or not. If it is installed then enable encoding mechanism for mysql. Open my.cnf(vi /etc/my.cnf)

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default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8
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+ Next remove the ImageMagick and sox from the server.

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# rpm -e ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
# rpm -e –nodeps sox-12.18.1-1
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+ “rpmforge repo” needs to installed. Please use the following command to install “rpmforge repo”.

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# rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el3.rf.x86_64.rpm
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+ Add the following content in rc.local(vi /etc/rc.local). So, after the reboot openoffice will automatically start.
and add the following lines under mysqld section. Don’t forgot to restart the mysql service after the change 🙂
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/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice “-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager” -nologo -headless -nofirststartwizard &

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+ Install the required modules.

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# yum install freetype freetype-devel fontconfig fontconfig-devel java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel libtiff libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libjpeg giflib giflib-devel libpaper libpaper-devel xml-commons-apis libpng libpng-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel fftw3 fftw3-devel cairo cairo-devel flac flac-devel wavpack wavpack-devel libsndfile libsndfile-devel libmad libmad-devel yasm-devel yasm gcc gcc-c++
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+ The next step is to install required OpenOffice products.

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# yum groupinstall ‘Office/Productivity’# yum install openoffice.org-headless
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+ Now, we will need to install the required the modules.

1. Ghostscript:

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# cd /usr/src
# wget http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-8.71.tar.gz
# tar zxvf ghostscript-8.71.tar.gz
# cd ghostscript-8.71
# ./configure –prefix=/usr
# mkdir obj
# mkdir bin
# make all
# make install
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2. Lame:

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# cd /usr/src
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.98.4/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
# tar zxvf lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
# cd lame-3.98.4
# ./configure –prefix=/usr
# make all
# make install
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3. SWFTools:

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# cd /usr/src
# wget http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
# tar zxvf swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
# cd swftools-0.9.1
# ./configure –prefix=/usr
# make all
make install
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4. ImageMagick:

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# cd /usr/src
# wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.6.4-10.tar.gz
# tar zxvf ImageMagick-6.6.4-10.tar.gz
# cd ImageMagick-6.6.4-10
# ./configure –prefix=/usr
# make all
# make install
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5. SoX:

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# cd /usr/src
# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.3.1/sox-14.3.1.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=spacetar zxvf sox-14.3.1.tar.gz
# cd sox-14.3.1
# ./configure –prefix=/usr
# make all
# make install
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6. Install SVN:

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# yum install subversion
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7: Install FFMPFG:

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# cd /usr/src
# svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
# cd ffmpeg
# ./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-postproc –enable-gpl –enable-pthreads –enable-avfilter –prefix=/usr
# make all
# make install
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8 .Install Java:

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# yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
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+ Now, the final step is to install openmeeting in the server.

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# wget http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_9_1_r4707.zip
# unzip openmeetings_1_8_8_r4555.zip -d om
# cd om/red5/
# chmod 755 red5.sh
# ./red5.sh
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You have completed the installation of openmeeting.
Open the browser and enter the openmeeting URL:

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http://IPADDRESS:5080/openmeetings/install
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You will need to fillup admin username, password, etc., Once, you enter these click on install. It will take some time for complete installation.

Now, you can access the openmeeting by using the following URL:

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http://IPADDRESS:5080
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Courtesy: Vishnuraj(Co worker).

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