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Since I already had Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop (fully updated) installed on an older p-3 system, I installed Zoneminder using the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Desktop instructions as follows:

Installing ZoneMinder from Packages

open a terminal window (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
sudo apt-get install zoneminder (install the package)
sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf (add a config to apache)
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload (restarts Apache)
* Reloading web server config apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
service zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: Can't open log file '/tmp/zmpkg.log': Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Debug.pm line 279.failure

Does that mean that ZoneMinder will not run on Ubuntu 11.04 desktop?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I have Zoneminder running on Ubuntu 11.04 and it seems to be working fine and so have other members on the board...

there is a how to on the wiki, but there are packages for ubuntu. I have used on 11.04 server

Looks like the error is just an abnormality. I was able to get the Zone Minder console up.

However I wanted to test the system using a Logitech C110 webcam. Cannot seem to get it to work inside Zone minder. Tried very basic settings, 320 x 240, grey scale. Web cam works in cheese.

Hopefully somebody has ran into this before. All help is appreciated.

Went to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with a 4 port video adapter (Pico2000). Working good.