Installation Advice

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:15 am

Hi All,
I urgently need to set up a security system at my house due to a few recent 'incidents'

I've tried installing it now on both Suse 9.1 and Fedora core 3.
Both failed with different errors - one during configure and one during running (PHP unable to find DB connection function)

From searching on the web both of these errors seem to be down to version mismatches/incompatibilities with Apache, PHP and MySQL.

My questions are:
1. Has anyone done an installation step-by-step guide for any particular distros - the ones I have available are any version of Redhat, Suse 9.1.
2. Should I use the PHP, MYSQL and Apache that is supplied with the distro or compile my own?
3. If I chose not to use the packages supplied with the distro and wanted to compile my own, what versions should I use and which particular MYSQL modules/packages would I need (I note there are about 7 - server, client etc)
4. Are there any distros where this works 'out of the box' without messing around installing different versions.

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

Nsaunders · Post by **Nsaunders** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:33 am

Hi Kevin,

Why not take a look at the Livecd Provided by Ross in the download section, This installs a working version of Zoneminder with everything needed.

Regards

Nick

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:44 am

I did think of that if I cant get it working, but I wanted to use a full distro so I can continue to use a web server etc at the same time as the CCTV

thelight · Post by **thelight** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:37 pm

I can 1.19.4 working out of the box with fedora core 2, 1.19.5 doesnt seem to want to work properly, some kind of database problems. If you can manage without a few of the 1.19.5 features then you could possibly try the previous version on fedora as it seems a little more compatible.

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:38 pm

About to try fedora core 1 tonight. Will try with both the current and older version and let you know how I got on.

Thanks

Milfran · Post by **Milfran** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:42 pm

Hi Kevin,

Don't know if you are aware of SME distro (based on RedHat 7.3), http://contribs.org
it's an easy gateway/server with a web admin interface.

Someone, Chaapai, has made a how-to and an install script for zoneminder on SME, unfortunately it is in French, but a babelfish translation should be good enough.
Edit: http://www.chaapai.homelinux.net/module ... page&pid=9

Just had to change "serveur_interne=0" to "serveur_interne=1" in the script.

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:50 pm

Thanks All,
I managed to find the following guide for installing on Suse 9.1. It all seems to work OK on this although I haven't had to much time to play about with it yet.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.p ... 126&tid=29

Now I just need to find a reasonably priced camera to give me decent pictures.