which .deb to install jitsi?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:29:27 -0400, Normand Marion wrote:
>sudo apt-get install jitsi

The OP didn't mention the version of the Ubuntu (flavour) install.

Regarding http://packages.ubuntu.com/ jitsi is only available by
official repositories for Trusty, aka 14.04.

The OP should open a terminal and run
  
  lsb_release -rc

and post the output.

>> but *which* .deb package?  There are many...they seem to require each
>> other.
>> https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/debian/  says:
>>
>> Note that once you install one of the Jitsi debian packages, our
>> debian repository would be automatically added to your package
>> sources so that you would be able to easily upgrade.

Have you tried to install a jitsi package that fits to your
architecture and the version you want?

Those are the available jitsi packages, don't care about the other
packages.

[DEB] jitsi_2.8.5426-1_i386.deb                           2015-03-19 15:20   22M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.8.5426-1_amd64.deb                          2015-03-19 15:20   22M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.6.5390-1_i386.deb                           2015-02-01 15:13   22M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.6.5390-1_amd64.deb                          2015-02-01 15:13   22M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.5.5065-1_amd64.deb                          2014-02-05 17:46   21M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.5-latest_amd64.deb                          2014-02-05 17:46   21M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.5.5065-1_i386.deb                           2014-02-05 17:45   21M  
[DEB] jitsi_2.5-latest_i386.deb                           2014-02-05 17:45   21M

I don't know what version of Ubuntu you are using, so I just link
randomly to man pages, feel free to run

  man dpkg
  man apt-get

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/dpkg.1.html

You could download a package and install it by

  sudo dpkg -i --force-depends /path/jitsi*deb

Then run

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --fix-broken

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man8/apt-get.8.html

Since the jitsi package seems to add a new repository, you need to run
"update" to get the new index files, after that you need to resolve the
dependencies by "--fix-broken".

However, this is asking for trouble, for several reasons. Assumed it
should work now, then you most likely need pinning or to comment out the
Debian repository. There might be several soname/library versions
issues.

Pff, https://jitsi.org/Main/DebianRepository , "Note that you SHOULD
NOT manually add Jitsi to your sources list because that would cause
GPG Error Warnings!" Why don't they simply describe what keys you need
to download?

_Don't install it!_ If you insist in installing it without knowledge
and vague information provided by upstream, consider to backup you
install first.

Good luck!
Ralf