Red5 on Gentoo

Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java. This is a short introduction on how to get red5 running under Gentoo.

• Currently the red5 ebuild resides in the bangert overlay. To add the bangert overlay to your system install layman:

  # emerge layman
  

• Setup layman - see the layman docs.

• Add the bangert overlay to your system.

  # layman -a bangert
  

• red5 is still considered experimental or unstable - so add it to your keywords file

  # echo "dev-java/red5" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
  

  or

  # echo "dev-java/red5" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords/red5
  

• Install red5

  # emerge red5
  

Options

The red5 ebuild currently sports three USE flags:

• examples - installs the example webapps
• source - installs the red5 source - you will want this if you write your own red5 application (very likely)
• doc - installs the documentation

Directory structure and startup scripts

The red5 ebuild installs red5 into /opt/red5. Webapps are installed into /var/lib/red5-webapps

To start red5, run

# /etc/init.d/red5 start

To stop red5, run

# /etc/init.d/red5 stop

The ebuild creates a new red5 user under which the application will run.

If you find errors in or have improvements to this ebuild, do not hesitate to contact me@bangert@gentoo.org.

Have fun.