How to install Ring in Ubuntu

How to install Ring in Ubuntu

Ring is an open-source and secure communication software that allows its users to make audio or video calls and to send messages. It is available on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and Separate GNOME and also in KDE versions. This software is designed with the help of peer-to-peer technologies and also offers better encryption standards. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Ring in Ubuntu.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, download the repository and add the repository in the required directory.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# sh -c " echo ' deb https://dl.ring.cx/ring-nightly/ubuntu_16.04/ ring main'  >  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ring-nightly-man.list" 
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys A295D773307D25A33AE72F2F64CD5FA175348F84
Executing: /tmp/tmp.Tn2QnQCYjk/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
pgp.mit.edu
--recv-keys
A295D773307D25A33AE72F2F64CD5FA175348F84
gpg: requesting key 75348F84 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
gpg: key 75348F84: public key " Ring - Savoir-Faire Linux, Inc < ring@lists.savoirfairelinux.net> "  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# add-apt-repository universe
' universe'  distribution component is already enabled for all sources.

Next update the local repository index by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]  
&hellip 
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&hellip 
Get:18 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,976 B]                                                                                                       
Fetched 1,326 kB in 7s (173 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                          
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the repositories. Install the ring package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get install ring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
&hellip 
&hellip 
&hellip 
Setting up ring-daemon (20170518.1.fa9f5d6~dfsg1-1) ...
Setting up ring (20170518.1.fa9f5d6~dfsg1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...

To open ring application, type the following command in the terminal and execute it.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# ring.cx

The Ring application is opened. Create ring account by clicking the Create Ring Account option.

Now set the user' s ring account profile by giving the full name and the ring account mail and the required password credentials.

Search any friend using their ring id and add them to the newly created contact list.

It also contains the Ring ID QR code to scan the QR code to know about the Ring ID.

There are some of Ring' s general settings to customize Ring software according to user' s needs.

It also contains Media settings to customize the video calls by the user.

The user can also change the account settings by changing the user name and other parameters.

The About ring options contains the version of the installed Ring.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Ring uses the distributed hash table implementation known as OpenDHT.