Red5 Installation Guide

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Requirements
1. Red5 requires  Java 1.6 or newer. Earlier versions of Java are no longer supported.
Following command for CentOS 5.5 to install Java 1.6.0:

yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

2. Building from source also requires  ivy and  ant.

Compiling with the command line
To build the Red5 source simply run the following command from the command line inside the Red5 source directory:

ant clean dist

Compiling with the command line on Debian 5 (Lenny)
The instructions above do not seem to work on Debian 5. To install red5 0.9.1 from source on Debian 5, do the following:

aptitude install sun-java6-jdk ant subversion
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/core/trunk ivy
cd ivy
ant jar
cp build/artifact/jars/ivy.jar /usr/share/ant/lib/
cd ..

svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_9_1 red5-0.9.1
cd red5-0.9.1
ant prepare
ant dist

We suggest using the Red5Plugin when developing Red5 Applications.