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I'd like to perform a ZM install on Ubuntu 13:10, but having seen the following warning in the ppa it put me off until more research could be done.

ZoneMinder currently does not work on 13.10 or newer, due to mysql support in PHP being deprecated.

This wiki page indicates it may be possible to have ZM working on 13:10

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... on_changes

Also looking at the GitHub source code, Isaac authored some changes from the 'mysql2PDO' branch. The Ubuntu 12:04 change log said:

+zoneminder (1.27.1-1) precise; urgency=low
+
+ * Convert from php mysql ext to PDO

Does this imply that I could compile ZM from source on my Ubuntu 13:10 and it'll work?

Would I be better off waiting for 1.27.1 to be released as a ppa due to all the benefits that gives? If so how long are you looking at until it's released please?

Thanks.

Well, 1.27 is on the PPA. Works well on 12.04. Also have installed it on 13.04 then upgraded to 13.10 and it worked!

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... e_easy_way

I'm also running on 13.10 but have had ZM installed for a while so have just been doing upgrades and not a clean install.

Here is my experience with 1.27 on Ubuntu 13.10 building from source:

The week 1.27 was released I had 1.26.5 up and running.

I cloned the 1.27 master from github and merged the mysql2PDO branch into it.

I used the cmakecacheimport script to generate a cache file then used cmake to build the package using this command:
when I tried to make the build I got the following error: I was able to get around this by running make as root.

I then installed it and got ZM up and running after using zmupdate.pl to upgrade the db.

I was able to view monitors and motion detection was working but I noticed that the events were not being listed on the main index page. This has since been solved as reported here: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/issues/364

By this time the Iconnor branch had merged the mysql2PDO fix into it so I decided to checkout the Iconnor branch and build it the same way, however cmake failed do to undefined functions relating to something called Fifostream:: which I couldn't find any information on. I'm guessing I'm missing a dependency.

I then attempted to once again build the master with mysql2PDO and the commit to fix the event listings. I was able to make and install, however none of my monitors would display.

The logs showed zm not being able to access shared memory, and a whole bunch of socket_sento errors and sock files not being found. I tried all the fixes for these types of errors list on the internet but had no luck getting around them.

I've resorted to reverting back to 1.26.5 for the time being, which using the same cmake command to configure works perfectly. Not sure where to go from here, but plan on continuing to try to build 1.27 and get it running.

Hans

Ok, no I feel silly for wasting time posting above. Here's what I just did:
I ran into errors here because my monitors table had already been upgraded for 1.27 so I had to comment line 16 and 17 out of ../db/zm_update-1.27.0.sql.

Started up zoneminder and everything is working as expected. I hope this helps someone.

Hans