If you're thinking of installing jitsi-meet on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, don't. If anything breaks, it's a mess. In my case, prosody refuses to start, blaming a missing file. If I purge, it's still missing the file. If I remove every f*ing prosody-anything from anywhere (except PeerTube), it finally says there is nothing wrong and I can run apt again. If I try to install prosody after that, it's right back to where it was.
It ran fine in 24.04 LTS. It does not start, blaming a missing file (and who knows what else after it is satisfied that the file exists). To wit:
require "prosody.loader";
What provides it? Not prosody, apparently. Theirs is not the greatest documentation for errors like this.
#Ubuntu #prosody #Jitsi
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