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Hi,

I tried to install zoneminder on debian 5.0, stable, LENNY.

But, without good results...

I would like install it by DEB, but dont exist any recent way to make this.

So I tried to install it followed the "manual" instruction based on source.

./configure
make install

but I have some knowledge problem to understand all of the steps, because all of the guide refear to old debian ustable distributions.

Somebody can help me with the correct instructions to install zoneminder, started from debian 5.0 Lenny ??

thanks

well, there *is* a deb file that permitts zm intalation via apt-get install zoneminder; but it is not the latest version 1.24.1; im not sure where to find it, but google a little more and you´ll find the .deb or the repository to add to the sources you need;

if you use debian **i think you may** follow the ubuntu guide with no big problems;

i suggest this one: (you´ll get the latest version this way)

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... ozola-0.7)

*** (copy and paste the whole link until the parenthesis close)


good luck !

edit: i think that will do it to the sources:
if it fails, you may find the .deb here

http://www.howtoforge.com/video_surveil ... der_ubuntu

as i said, its an outdated version, so the ubuntu guide is a better bet;


also, the zm download page mentions:

If you are a Debian user, Zoneminder is available in the "unstable" distribution. Thanks to Peter Howard for his considerable efforts in achieving this.

ok, thanks

I'll search to follow this last one

I've just done a few installs on Lenny.

The following is laid out such that if you're SSH-ing into the machine remotely then you can cut and paste easily.

apt-get install dropbear

Add the following line to your sources file :

vi /etc/apt/sources.list (and add the following line)

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Then you can perform the following :

apt-get update

apt-get install zoneminder

You now need to add the link into Apache :

ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

You probably need to change a few things too once it's installed :

adduser www-data video

zmfix

/etc/init.d/zoneminder restart

And now for the shared memory (shget) error that you're likely to get :

vi /etc/sysctl.conf

Some numbers for reference if you wish to increase the above :

67108864 = 64 Mbytes
134217728 = 128 Mbytes
268435456 = 256 Mbytes
536870912 = 512 Mbytes

Accurate timekeeping might be an idea :

apt-get install ntp

And if you want to move the directory somewhere else (/home for example):

cd /home

mkdir zoneminder

cd zoneminder

mkdir events images temp

cd ..

chmod 775 zoneminder -R

rm /var/cache/zoneminder -R

ln -s /home/zoneminder /var/cache/zoneminder

The ZM - Console is viewed remotely by (192.168.1.5 is my machine) :

http://192.168.1.5/zm

UVC Streamer (if you're using it) is viewed at :

http://192.168.1.5:8080

And MJPG Streamer (if you're using it) is viewed at :

http://192.168.1.6:8080/?action=stream

To test a 'regular' camera (not remote/UVC) :

zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v

And finally, a few example commands/logs to find out what's going on :

cat /var/log/syslog | tail

tail /var/log/syslog -n 100

lsusb

dmsg

When configuring ZoneMinder through the http panel, if you're in the UK then you might prefer the Day-Month-Year format (Source > Timestamp tab):

%N - %d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S

I had to make a link to ffmpeg in order to create videos.

ln /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

this is more a question for verbatim,

when you get the package with apt-get, do you get the 1.23 or 1.24 version of ZM ?

I am interested in getting ZM 1.24 to work on Lenny

when you get the package with apt-get, do you get the 1.23 or 1.24 version of ZM ?

i suggest you check that by runnung
or the name of the correct package;