BigBlueButton CentOS 64-bit RPM Packages

[Islam El-Ashi]

Hi everyone,

A lot of people using CentOS have been asking for support for 64-bit.
A few days back I mentioned that we had RPM packages for CentOS 5.4 32-
bit available, and we have recently exerted the effort of adding RPM
packages for CentOS 5.4 64-bit as well.

Again, these packages are available only for testing and have not been
officially released yet. We hope, with your help and feedback, we can
get them to the shape where we can officially release them when
BigBlueButton 0.64 comes out.

Regards,

Islam

[Mike Soares]

I'm not sure if this was specific to me, but I had a hard time getting
a java-1.4.2 dependency installed (jpackage-utils)... I managed to get
it installed using this workaround:
http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/jpackage-jpackage-utils-compatibility-for-centos-5.x

Currently in the middle of running bbb-install.sh. Will report back
if/when it finishes.

Mike

[Matt Chan]

Hi Islam,

A big congrats out to you and everyone else on the BBB dev team. I've
tried a few web conferencing solutions in the past and BBB is by far
the easiest and cleanest one; this repo method just makes it even more
so.

One issue I ran into with BBB on a clean centOS 5.4 x86_64 install is
a ghostscript dependency failure. It looks like the bbb-web-0.64-i386
package requires ghostscript >= 8.64, but we've only got version
8.15.2 in the centOS repos. Ghostscript 8.64 doesn't appear to be in
rpmforge or any of the repos included in the install script.

I'm running a fresh 5.4 x86_64 install with no 3rd party repos except
rpmforge (disabled by default) and the ones introduced in the install
script.

I've attached the original error below:
# ./bbb-install.sh
....
....
---> Package ttmkfdir.x86_64 0:3.0.9-23.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
bbb-web-0.64-323.i386 from bigbluebutton has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: ghostscript >= 8.64 is needed by package bbb-
web-0.64-323.i386 (bigbluebutton)
Error: Missing Dependency: ghostscript >= 8.64 is needed by package
bbb-web-0.64-323.i386 (bigbluebutton)

Matt

On Mar 12, 3:27 pm, Islam El-Ashi <iela...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Islam El-Ashi]

Hi Matt,

Try a 'yum clean all' then start the installation by running 'yum
install bigbluebutton'. Ghostscript 8.64 is provided in our own
repository and should be available.

Islam

[Matt Chan]

Hi Islam,

Ah, there was interference from our yum-protectbase configuration.
It's installing now.

For future reference, the bbb repo should include
protect=1
for people using protectbase.

Thanks for your help, I'll write back with more testing results soon.
Matt