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Which doesn't exist on this system, linux uses "/opt".

Looking through the Installation guide it seemed to indicate that the prefix could be set:

Configuration can be done in 4 ways:
1) As a command line parameter, e.g. cmake -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON .

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - Use this to change the prefix (default /usr/local). This option behaves like --prefix from autoconf. Package maintainers will probably want to set this to "/usr".

Which seem to indicate that using:
Would attempt to make the install into /opt/ZoneMinder.
Catch: make keeps blowing up after not being able to access /usr/local, which makes sense since I need this installed into /opt/ZoneMinder.

Q: Is there any way to have CMAKE actually use the install prefix?

Not sure on the the CMAKE thing, but Linux uses /opt, or /usr/local (depending on your distribution) -- or both. It's up to you though, the whole point of being in control of your own OS is that *you* can make these choices -- I've got most user-added stuff in /usr/local, but OpenOffice went into /opt. Whatever ... both work!

You could always make a symbolic link from /usr/local/wherever-it-ends-up to /opt/ZoneMinder, if you can't beat it into submission

You are missing the period "." at the end of your cmake command. It is required and the build will certainly not go as expected if it is missing.

"For the want of a dot, the compilation was lost"