Since Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) is the current recommended platform for running BigBlueButton, it is recommended that you also use that operating system as your build environment. When using newer versions of Ubuntu or Debian to build, the installation of the `.deb` package will fail on the target server, because the binary will link against newer versions of system libraries, which are not available in Ubuntu 16.04.
Since Ubuntu 18.04 (xenial) is the only supported platform for running BigBlueButton, it is recommended that you also use that operating system as your build environment. When using newer versions of Ubuntu or Debian to build, the installation of the `.deb` package will fail on the target server, because the binary will link against newer versions of system libraries, which are not available in Ubuntu 18.04.