which .deb to install jitsi?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:27:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>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

PS:

Consider to learn how to build from source,
https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/src/ .