Recently working on a videochat application I wanted to use my own VPS server for some real world testing.

Version 0.9 RC2 is the current available for Red5… and after fiddling trying to get things going, I found this cool tutorial which worked like a charm.

Credits of course to the original poster: http://www.videochat-scripts.com/install-red5-0-9-on-linux-ubuntu/

My VPS is currently running on Ubuntu “Lucid” 10.04.

First installed required packages one by one: apt-get install subversion apt-get install java-package apt-get install sun-java6-jdk apt-get install ant

Used arrows to browse to the Ok and confirm on jdk installation dialogs.

Verified installed java version: java -version

Downloaded latest Red5: mkdir -p ~/svn/red5 cd More >