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Has anyone attempted this? If so, notes please and how much of an upgrade was it?

Can you be more specific on what you intend to accomplish?

ZoneMinder 1.25 -> currently installed from source? from package? Existing system currently running CentOS 6.6 or is it an older version?
ZoneMinder 1.28 -> install from source? install from package in zmrepo? Something else?

I too am interested in going from 1.25 to 1.28. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I installed from apt-get from the default repo in Ubuntu. I can do the whole "do-release-upgrade" thing and get to 14.04 LTS. Is 1.28 in the default 14.04 Ubuntu repos? Is it possible to upgrade like this without losing all my configs? I really want to avoid having setup the whole system again.

knnniggett wrote:Can you be more specific on what you intend to accomplish?

ZoneMinder 1.25 -> currently installed from source? from package? Existing system currently running CentOS 6.6 or is it an older version?
ZoneMinder 1.28 -> install from source? install from package in zmrepo? Something else?

Umm....yea. CentOS 6.6 is the current system.

1.25 installed from a package, prefer 1.28 as a package also.

I guess I did build rpm's for zoneminder 1.25. I had forgotten.

Since the old version is in rpm form, the upgrade should be trivial.
Configure your system for zmrepo, run "yum update", then follow the steps in the README:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... ed_distros

Upgrading database to version 1.28.0
Loading config from DB
Saving config to DB
Upgrading DB to 1.26.0 from 1.26.0
ERROR 1060 (42S21) at line 1: Duplicate column name 'Colours'
Output:
Command 'mysql -hlocalhost -uremoved -pdeleted zm < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_update-1.26.0.sql' exited with status: 1

Interesting. Does the file /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_update-1.26.0.sql look like this one?
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinde ... 1.26.0.sql

It should not error out if you already have the column in your database.

Anyway, this should fix it:

1) Edit the file /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_update-1.26.0.sql and comment out lines 1-13. These are the lines of code that add the "Colours" field to your database, which you already have.

2) Run zmupdate.pl again.

3) I expect it to complain about the Deinterlacing column so rinse and repeat. Edit the file /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_update-1.26.0.sql and, this time, comment out lines 15-27. These are the lines of code that add the "Deinterlacing" field to your database, which you already have.

4) Run zmupdate.pl again.

It should successfully upgrade you to 1.28.0.

I was going to reply last night..but got busy.

I dropped 1.25's schemas in the db and just created 1.28's db structure per the docs, re-setup my cams in zm and all is well. I appreciate your help! It was as simple as you originally stated. Thanks again!!

Excellent. Glad you got it working.