Install bigbluebutton 0.8 (BBB) on Ubuntu 11.04

I recently installed big blue button version 0.8 on Ubuntu 11.04 and I came up with some errors while installing. This post is the log of my actions that solved my problem.


I was getting the following error:

Unpacking bbb-client (from .../bbb-client_0.80ubuntu91_amd64.deb) ...
cp: cannot stat `/var/www/nginx-default/50x.html': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bbb-client_0.80ubuntu91_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bbb-client_0.80ubuntu91_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The problem was that nginx didn’t create the web root folder in /var/www/ so I made a softlink by giving the following command:

var/www$ sudo ln -s -d /usr/share/nginx/www/ nginx-default

Then I got the following error:

Setting up bbb-record-core (0.80ubuntu87) ...
/etc/init.d/bbb-record-core: line 24: god: command not found
invoke-rc.d: initscript bbb-record-core, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing bbb-record-core (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
bbb-record-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

which seemed to be as easy as to link the ruby’s god exe in the local bin by posting the following command:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/god /usr/local/bin

but unfortunately this gave me the following error:

Setting up bbb-record-core (0.80ubuntu87) ...
Record and Playback monitoring started
sudo: bundle: command not found
dpkg: error processing bbb-record-core (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
bbb-record-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

which indicated that bbb also required the bundle gem. Fixed that also by posting the equivalent cmd:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/bundle /usr/local/bin

And finally big blue button installed on my server… The last two links could be avoided if I had installed the RVM manager (or so it seems) but I didn’t have the time or the will to do so. If you want to get your hands into it, check out this blog post which seemed like a nice guide on installing ruby on ubuntu.