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Please help !! ZM on Debian !!

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:39 am
by mapcym
Please help me , what shold i do after i did " apt-get install zoneminder ? Thanks a lot !!!!

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:43 am
by cordel
Read the documentation that is included in the package "README.deb"

thanks a lot !

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:50 am
by mapcym
but i'm very new in linux , as a matter of fact it's zm that got me into linux . i don't even know where did it install to , sorry to say that , please , help me out here ! thanks !

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:49 am
by blink
You can find where is install zoneminder by typing command like this

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monitor:~# whereis zoneminder
zoneminder: /usr/share/zoneminder
Now You know where is install zoneminder :)

Simple instruction howto run zoneminder on debian
1) Add line to apache configuration in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

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Alias /zm/ "/usr/share/zoneminder/"
Add apache user to video group

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adduser www-data video
Then restart apache

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apache2ctl restart
Thats all

Thanks a lot !!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:36 am
by mapcym
Thank you so much ! i will give it a try !

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:02 pm
by jameswilson
or use a livecd then you wont have to do any of that

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:53 pm
by Lee Sharp
Also, look in the wiki for "installing from a .deb" and you will see it step by step. It is simple once you know how. It is that "knowing how" part that is tough!

thanks for all the help !!!!

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:53 pm
by mapcym
ZM is in now , next is how to get my cams workig, i'm using a old card i think it's a bt878, looking for infos on net , hope it will not be so hard to get it wroking ! haha !