Need help with Jitsi desktop

I am running PureOS on an Intel NUC:

ID=pureos
NAME=PureOS
PRETTY_NAME=PureOS
VERSION_ID=9.0
VERSION_CODENAME=amber

I have installed Jitsi desktop stable from the debian repo instructions, which seemed to finish OK, but I wouldn’t start on my system. Just stopped at some initialization window, but nothing happened.
After that I have tried to install the latest nightly version, but only getting the following install error:

~$ sudo apt -y install jitsi
Reading package lists … finished
Building dependency trees
Reading permit information …
Some packages could not be installed. That could mean you requested an impossible situation or, if you use the unstable distribution
that some necessary packages have not yet been created or moved
get out of Incoming.
The following information can be helpful in resolving the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
jitsi: depending on: libavformat57 but it can not be installed or
libavformat-ffmpeg56, but it can't be installed
Depending on: libavcodec57 but it cannot be installed or
libavcodec-extra57, but it can not be installed or
libavcodec-ffmpeg56, but it can not be installed or
libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 but it cannot be installed
Depending on: libavfilter6 but it cannot be installed or
libavfilter-extra6, but it can not be installed or
libavfilter-ffmpeg5, but it can't be installed
Depending on: libavutil55 but it cannot be installed or
libavutil-ffmpeg54, but it can't be installed
Depending on: libownscale4 but it cannot be installed or
libswscale-ffmpeg3, but it can't be installed
E: could not correct the problems, you have held back broken packages.

Can someone help me out here?
Thanks

Hi @tomoqv can you paste here the output of:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

1 Like

For Jitsi Desktop, Jitsi Meet and Jitsi Videobridge it looks like Debian/PureOS/Ubuntu don’t have this in their own repository. If it is standalone one, as first there is need to install the Jitsi repository (here are links to stable / unstable) key onto your system, etc. As I’m not using Jitsi, still hope that by fine tuning your SourcesList this might help.

Since a few days I use the AppImage which you can download here:

https://github.com/csett86/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/download/v1.2.2/jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage

1 Like
deb https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/ amber main
deb https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/ amber-security main
deb https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/ amber-updates main

I have downloaded and chmod a+x it, but it won’t start for me. My experience of appimages, though, are that they usually consume far too much system resources.

It seems Jitsi is dependent on old libav* packages. When checking, I have newer versions available or already installed.

$ apt-cache search libav
libavcodec58 - FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - runtime files
libavcodec-dev - FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - development files
libavcodec-extra - FFmpeg library with extra codecs (metapackage)
libavcodec-extra58 - FFmpeg library with additional de/encoders for audio/video codecs
libavdevice58 - FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files
libavdevice-dev - FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - development files
libavfilter7 - FFmpeg library containing media filters - runtime files
libavfilter-dev - FFmpeg library containing media filters - development files
libavfilter-extra - FFmpeg library with extra filters (metapackage)
libavfilter-extra7 - FFmpeg library with extra media filters - runtime files
libavformat58 - FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers - runtime files
libavformat-dev - FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers - development files
libavresample4 - FFmpeg compatibility library for resampling - runtime files
libavresample-dev - FFmpeg compatibility library for resampling - development files
libavutil56 - FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - runtime files
libavutil-dev - FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - development files

not jitsi but similar > https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Tox