upgrade procedure from 1.22 to 1.24

gian · Post by **gian** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:50 pm

I have a non-working (not yet!) Zoneminder install on Ubuntu 8.04.

I just realized that it is v1.22, and would like to move to the last version.

Which is the best way to go?
v.122 was installed with Synaptics, but v1.24 is a tar.gz.

Should I remove the old one with Synaptics, and do a manual install of the 1.24 tar.gz or proceed straight away installing the tar.gz (maybe using checkinstall)?

thanks for your time,
-Gian

timcraig · Post by **timcraig** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:09 pm

Given you haven't gotten your 1.22 install working, I am assuming you don't have any existing data you need to save over to the upgrade to 1.24. If that is the case then I'd recommend deleting your 1.22 through apt-get or Synaptic, make sure that Zoneminders web folder in apache is deleted and then install 1.24.1 from scratch.

Zoneminder's upgrade procedure simply involves installing the new version of Zoneminder and then using the zmupdate.pl script to upgrade your exsting database to the new version. If you don't have any existing events or configurations setting you want to save, then it's better to just do a clean install.

gian · Post by **gian** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:10 am

that's what I thought.

Thanks for your kind reply.

-Gian

gian · Post by **gian** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:09 pm

....mmm, there's something wrong here.

I removed 1.22, and installed 1.24.

However, cat /etc/zm/zm.conf still shows v.1.22....

I wonder if I should start from scratch with a new Ubuntu install?!
Maybe Jaunty has ZM 1.24 linked in the repo.

-Gian