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I'm trying to get zoneminder to work on a lap top with a usb camera so that I can test the system to hopfully replace the cctv systems I am currently running. I have got as far as loading up firefox and typing ipaddress/zm and get nothing loaded.
I have loaded zoneminder from ubuntu software in gnome and spent the last two days trying to get zoneminder running to no avail. Can anybody help. I have 30 years + experience in computing but have never used unix until a couple of days ago.

Not that I am an expert for ZM, but I do know unix (HPUX and RHEL).
First look at your log files for errors, you will probably find them in /var/log and more through messages,
grep -i zm /var/log/messages | more

secondly try "xawtv" to see if you can detect your camera in linux. There are many thread posted on this site, use search. This will let you know if you can talk to the camera.

Then take the errors you find in the log and search for them.

This could be something as simple as your apache server is not turned on.
Not sure about Ubuntu if it uses "chkconfig", try "chkconfig --list" as root to see if apache is turned on. I think ubunti is debian based, so it probably will not work I think they uses different commands. There is probably a GUI, is your are not a shell type.

Make sure you can just go to http://localhost and see if you get an apache page, then go to http://localhost/zm.

Just a couple of guess, unfortunately you did not provide a lot of details to have others make suggestion.

Good Luck