Debian 8.2 Install

[robertbruce]

hi all,

machine is Compaq, 1.6 dual cpu, 4g ram, lappy
i am trying to install zm into debian 8.2 64 desktop

have been followed this guide with fresh install a couple of times
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8.1_ ... e_Easy_Way
I am doing fresh installs on most attempts, done about 4 so far...
Have used Apt or Synaptic and/or both during these attempts

am getting this error
zoneminder:
Depends: libjs-mootools (>=1.4.5~debian1) but it is not installable
Depends: libav-tools but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdate-manip-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmime-lite-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libmime-tools-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libphp-serialization-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libnet-sftp-foreign-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libarchive-zip-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdevice-serialport-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libimage-info-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libjson-any-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libsys-mmap-perl but it is not installable
Depends: liburi-encode-perl but it is not installable
Depends: zip but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zoneminder-doc but it is not going to be installed

On a previous attempt i indivually installed some of the missing dependicies but was still coming up 4 short
They where refferred top as 'virtual packages'
The last time i got bored and changed Settings-Preferences-Distrubution to Jessie BackPorts
but still the same set of missing dependicies

any help would be great,..

[knight-of-ni]

Your system, as it is configured, cannot find the packages it is complaining about.
You need to find a repo, compatible with 8.2, that hosts those packages.

I don't used Debian, so I don't know if that simply means enabling a repo you already have installed, or if you have to go fish for a third party repo.

[robertbruce]

ta Knny, will see how i go

[SteveGilvarry]

Are you sure you are following that guide? You mention last time you changed to jessie-backports in settings -> preferences. The guide has you adding jessie-backports to sources.list as a step from terminal. That is critical as current version on zm only exists in jessie-backports as it was dropped from debian due to lack of maintainer, and then someone took it on and got it into backports.
I just did a fresh install of Debian 8.2 and followed the guide for a complete and working zm 1.28.1. I even skipped apt-get install php5 mysql-server php-pear php5-mysql as dependencies were all taken care of by the package.

[robertbruce]

HI Steve, thanks for your post - i only started fiddling with preferences after i got bored, undisciplined am I - yes...

The great news is i got it going....AND i worked out where i was going wrong

I was going wrong by not ticking synaptic's box "Close when finished update". Instead i was closing it manually. The install logs su out and su becomes locked out, ticking the box retains su...

yer yer yer, i should be using apt and server version but i did all that a few years back with 10.04 & 12.4 and i didnt want to ssh cause my bios has lost my mac address's ...

[SteveGilvarry]

Glad you got it going.

I was also installing in desktop version, you can still get a CLI and run all the commands as per guide.

[robertbruce]

i tried using apt-get in a su console from the desktop but would get to these last 3

Depends: libsys-mmap-perl but it is not installable
Depends: liburi-encode-perl but it is not installable
Depends: zip but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zoneminder-doc but it is not going to be installed

In most previous attempts i was getting a second set of boot options into a backport kernel (i think that is the way to describe it)..In this successful attempt, boot options are the same