Install jitsi-desktop 2.10.5550-1 on Ubuntu 20.04, 21.10 or 22.04

install-jitsi-desktop.bash

#!/bin/bash

# Install jitsi-desktop 2.10.5550-1
# Tested on:
# - Ubuntu 20.04, 21.10 and 22.04
# - Elementary OS 6.1
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# Add missing dependencies and force to run with openjdk-8

[ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ] && echo "This script must be run as root" && exit 1

function installDependencies() {
  apt update
  apt install wget openjdk-8-jre software-properties-common libappindicator1 libdbusmenu-gtk4 gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release 
}

function installPackages() {
  wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sh -c 'gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/jitsi-key.gpg'
  apt update
  mkdir -p /tmp/jitsi-java8
  wget -O /tmp/jitsi-java8/jitsi-archive-keyring_1.0.1_all.deb https://download.jitsi.org/stable/jitsi-archive-keyring_1.0.1_all.deb
  wget -O /tmp/jitsi-java8/jitsi_2.10.5550-1_amd64.deb https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi/releases/download/Jitsi-2.10/jitsi_2.10.5550-1_amd64.deb
  dpkg -i /tmp/jitsi-java8/jitsi-archive-keyring_1.0.1_all.deb
  dpkg -i /tmp/jitsi-java8/jitsi_2.10.5550-1_amd64.deb
}

function createWrapper() {
  cat << EOF > /usr/bin/jitsi-java8
#!/bin/bash
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin:$PATH

exec /usr/bin/jitsi "$@"
EOF
  chmod +x /usr/bin/jitsi-java8
}

function updateDesktop() {
  sed -i 's/Exec=jitsi %u/Exec=jitsi-java8 %u/g' /usr/share/applications/jitsi.desktop
}


installDependencies
installPackages
createWrapper
updateDesktop

it works

Awesome it works. Thanks very much @joker-x

Can you write the linux distribution version where it works? @pablodz @muctarr-rahim
This script must works in other version of Ubuntu and maybe in Debian too, but i have not test it.

Thanks a lot!

Ubuntu 21.10+ without problems

Ubuntu 21.10+ without problems

Added, thanks!

Thank you, It's worked
elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir (Built on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS) / Linux 5.15.0-41-generic

Thank you, It's worked elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir (Built on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS) / Linux 5.15.0-41-generic

Añadido! Muchas gracias :)

sudo bash install-jitsi-desktop.bash

Working, Thx

Nope
/usr/bin/jitsi: line 43: /usr/share/jitsi/lib/felix.jar:/usr/share/jitsi/sc-bundles/dnsjava.jar:/usr/share/jitsi/sc-bundles/sc-launcher.jar:/usr/share/jitsi/sc-bundles/util.jar:/usr/share/jitsi/lib: No such file or directory
➜ Downloads ls /usr/share/jitsi

Installed in Elementary OS 7 Horus, it works fine, thanks!

Works on Linux Mint 21.1, kernel 6.3.1-060301-generic, thanks a lot.

Thanks, it works fine, thank you so much

Perfect. Thank you.

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Ubuntu 24.04 Workaround

wget -c https://gist.github.com/joker-x/55bc16d4f8066e4a4eb9dff3873a423f/archive/f41ac718ba01b836304e43d9ff55aa8a66124dd6.zip -O jitsi-desktop.zip

unzip -p jitsi-desktop.zip 55bc16d4f8066e4a4eb9dff3873a423f-f41ac718ba01b836304e43d9ff55aa8a66124dd6/install-jitsi-desktop.bash >install-jitsi-desktop.bash

echo 'deb http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main universe' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt update

bash install-jitsi-desktop.bash

sed -i '2d' /etc/apt/sources.list

apt update

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