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So, because I was doing real work lately there was no time for some new post. Anyway there is something that I experienced and was not so easy as I originally thought.
As you can guess I tried to install red5 on debian etch alltogether with java 6. It seemed as an easy task but it was not… So here is the few steps guide you need to get it done:

• Step One – get java
  Step Two – get the red5 debian package
  Third and last step is starting your red5 and setting it to start automatically after reboot

- this seemed easy, but unfortunately in etch/stable there is not a package for java6 so what you need is to follow this tutorial about adding “backports” to your sources.list for aptitude. Just in case this link will die there is what is says:

1. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
2. Run apt-get update
3. All backports are deactivated by default. If you want to install something from backports run:
apt-get -t etch-backports install “package”

In my case it was something like sun-java6-bin.
When the install ends you can confirm the version by command

java -version

and the output should be something like this:

java version “1.6.0_06″
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode, sharing)

This is easy but not without problems – just go to osflash.org/red5 web page and download the pre-compiled .deb package. In my case it was latest 0.70 stable.
The problem is that this package is also precompiled with dependency to java 5 (i.e. java 1.5.x) so you have a problem. You can install it ignoring the dependency.
But this will result without dependencies and without configuration which will drive your apt crazy.
So better way you is doing it the properly. For that you have to unpack the .deb package and change the dependency to java6. It is done using the following commands:

dpkg-deb -x red5.deb tmpdir
dpkg-deb –control red5.deb tmpdir/DEBIAN
vi tmpdir/DEBIAN/control (here just change the line including java-1.5-bin to 1.6)
dpkg -b tmpdir red5-hacked.deb

This will prepare your .deb package. After this just run

dpkg -i red5-hacked.deb

All dependencies will be met so no problems should occur any more.

The firs part is easy just run:

/etc/init.d/red5 start

and verify by

ps -aux | grep red

which should show two lines – first the java running the red5 and second showing your command
The other part is also easy – the script in /etc/init.d is done automatically by red5 package. The only thing you probably want to change is to run this service under some other user.

And that’s all folks. Your red5 is up and running.