Here I have explained steps to create Kurento Media Server in Ubuntu, means Install Kurento in Ubuntu.

What is Kurento?

Kurento is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Kurento Media Server features include group communications, transcoding, recording, mixing, broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows.

Installation of Kurento in Ubuntu

Now make sure that, Kurento supports only two TLS (Long-Term Support) versions of Ubuntu. So you must have any one of these two versions of Ubuntu installed on the machine/server where you want to install Kurento to create Kurento Media Server.

  • Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) (64-bits only)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) (64-bits only)

Next, Make sure that GnuPG is Installed

sudo apt-get update \
  && sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes \
     gnupg

Then, Define what version of Ubuntu is installed in your system by running any one of following line, based on your ubuntu version.

# Run ONLY ONE of these lines:
DISTRO="xenial"  # KMS for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
DISTRO="bionic"  # KMS for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

Now, Add the Kurento repository to your system configuration.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5AFA7A83
sudo tee "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/kurento.list" >/dev/null <<EOF
# Kurento Media Server - Release packages
deb [arch=amd64] http://ubuntu.openvidu.io/6.10.0 $DISTRO kms6
EOF

And finally, install Kurento.

sudo apt-get update \
  && sudo apt-get install --yes kurento-media-server

After installation, you have to start kurento service on Ubuntu to use it, you can run following commands to start and stop service respectively.

sudo service kurento-media-server start
sudo service kurento-media-server stop

And you done!

Hope this is helpful for Install Kurento server on Ubuntu or for create Kurento Media Server.

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