Building Kurento on CentOS 7

Kurento 6.11.0

Kurento depends on several custom libraries and tools such as Boost 1.55 and a customized version of Gstreamer. To avoid possible conflicts with system libraries and tools, some Kurento dependencies are built and installed under /opt/kms folder.

SOURCES folder contains patches and various configuration files only. Sources for each package will be downloaded from upstream locations automatically.

SOURCES.snapshot folder contains a snapshot of all sources downloaded from upstream locations. In case upstream is unavailable, you can copy a missing file from SOURCES.snapshot to SOURCES.

1. Install Docker on your system. And clone repository.

2. Build docker image (based on CentOS 7 Latest)

   docker build -t rpm-build .
   

3. Select Kurento version

   cd 6.11.0
   

4. Build Kurento dependencies

   docker run -d \
     -v $(pwd)/SPECS:/root/rpmbuild/SPECS \
     -v $(pwd)/RPMS:/root/rpmbuild/RPMS \
     -v $(pwd)/SOURCES:/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES \
     -v $(pwd)/scripts:/root/scripts \
     --name kurento-build-deps -t rpm-build
     
   docker exec -it kurento-build-deps /root/scripts/build-deps.sh
   

5. Build Kurento packages

   docker run -d \
     -v $(pwd)/SPECS:/root/rpmbuild/SPECS \
     -v $(pwd)/RPMS:/root/rpmbuild/RPMS \
     -v $(pwd)/SOURCES:/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES \
     -v $(pwd)/scripts:/root/scripts \
     --name kurento-build -t rpm-build
     
   docker exec -it kurento-build /root/scripts/build.sh
   

   Each Kurento and Gstreamer packages are being built from sources pulled from respective https://github.com/Kurento repository. It uses git commit defined in the respective RPM spec file under SPECS. To update a package, modify a line in a spec file. For example:

   %define commit b33143e
   

   Also change Version: and/or Release: tags if necessary.

6. Optionally, delete Docker containers after successful build

   docker stop kurento-build-deps kurento-build
   docker rm kurento-build-deps kurento-build
   

7. All RPM packages are located in RPMS folder.

Installing Kurento on CentOS/RHEL 7

1. Use minimal system installation

2. Copy RPMS folder onto your target system under /root/RPMS

3. Copy install-kurento.sh from this repository into /root

4. Run installation script

   chmod +x install-kurento.sh && ./install-kurento.sh
   

Running Kurento on CentOS/RHEL 7

• To start, stop, restart, enable, disable Kurento Media Server service

   systemctl start|stop|restart|enable|disable kms
  

• Make sure to allow connections to the port range used by Kurento or disable firewall completely when testing

   systemctl stop firewalld ; systemctl disable firewalld
  

• Config files are in /etc/kurento folder

• The log files are under /var/log/kurento folder

• Startup environment variables and arguments are in /etc/sysconfig/kms file