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Install RBT: Ubuntu Noble prerequisites

This preflight step prepares an Ubuntu Noble host for RBT. It covers the operating-system baseline, host resources and packages that later database, telephony, video and application services rely on.

This page is one step in the complete RBT installation guide.

Before you start

  • Use a dedicated server or virtual machine with administrative access.
  • Confirm the final hostname, DNS records, storage layout and backup plan.
  • Apply current security updates before installing application services.

Expected result

The host should report Ubuntu Noble, have enough free storage for the planned database and logs, and resolve its production hostname correctly.

Verify this step

lsb_release -ds
hostname -f
df -h

FRS + RBT (~1k cameras/domophones)

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E2690v4
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 4Gb
RAM: 64 Gb
RAID10: 6TB

FLUSSONIC (~1k cameras/domophones)

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 2 * E2690v4
GPU: NO
RAM: 64 Gb
NORAID: 16 * 14TB

Preparation

[!IMPORTANT] Use a minimal Ubuntu Server 24.04 (Noble Numbat) installation on a VM or bare-metal server. Run all installation commands as root (sudo -i) unless stated otherwise.

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get -y install -f && \
sudo apt-get -y full-upgrade && \
sudo apt-get -y autoremove && \
sudo apt-get -y autoclean && \
sudo apt-get -y clean

sudo apt-get install -y \
bash-completion \
redis \
nginx \
php-fpm \
php-redis \
php-mbstring \
php-curl \
php-pdo-pgsql \
php-pdo \
php-pear \
php-dev \
php-intl \
php-yaml \
composer \
libxt6 \
libxmu6 \
python-dev-is-python3 \
libssl-dev \
liblzma-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev \
lua5.4 \
libedit-dev \
libxml2-dev \
xmlstarlet \
liblua5.4-dev \
libxslt1-dev \
libsrtp2-dev \
lua-cjson \
luarocks \
patch \
uuid-dev \
libldap2-dev \
libsqlite3-dev \
git \
ntp \
cron \
rsyslog \
logrotate \
socat \
coturn \
gcc \
g++ \
make \
apache2-utils \
dialog \
locales \
ffmpeg \
telnet \
expect \
mosquitto \
net-tools \
iputils-ping \
sngrep \
traceroute \
tcpdump

sudo apt-get install -y --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-24.04

pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
pecl install mongodb luasandbox

echo "extension=mongodb.so" >/etc/php/8.3/mods-available/mongodb.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/mongodb.ini /etc/php/8.3/cli/conf.d/30-mongodb.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/mongodb.ini /etc/php/8.3/fpm/conf.d/30-mongodb.ini

echo "extension=luasandbox.so" >/etc/php/8.3/mods-available/luasandbox.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/luasandbox.ini /etc/php/8.3/cli/conf.d/30-luasandbox.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.3/mods-available/luasandbox.ini /etc/php/8.3/fpm/conf.d/30-luasandbox.ini

sudo apt-get purge -y lua-sec lua-socket

luarocks-5.4 install luasec && \
luarocks-5.4 install inspect && \
luarocks-5.4 install luasocket && \
luarocks-5.4 install lua-cjson 2.1.0-1

dpkg-reconfigure locales

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

systemctl restart php8.3-fpm

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