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hi all,

machine is Compaq, 1.6 dual cpu, 4g ram, lappy
i am trying to install zm into debian 8.2 64 desktop

have been followed this guide with fresh install a couple of times
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8.1_ ... e_Easy_Way
I am doing fresh installs on most attempts, done about 4 so far...
Have used Apt or Synaptic and/or both during these attempts

am getting this error
zoneminder:
Depends: libjs-mootools (>=1.4.5~debian1) but it is not installable
Depends: libav-tools but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdate-manip-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmime-lite-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libmime-tools-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libphp-serialization-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libnet-sftp-foreign-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libarchive-zip-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdevice-serialport-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libimage-info-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libjson-any-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libsys-mmap-perl but it is not installable
Depends: liburi-encode-perl but it is not installable
Depends: zip but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zoneminder-doc but it is not going to be installed

On a previous attempt i indivually installed some of the missing dependicies but was still coming up 4 short
They where refferred top as 'virtual packages'
The last time i got bored and changed Settings-Preferences-Distrubution to Jessie BackPorts
but still the same set of missing dependicies

any help would be great,..

Your system, as it is configured, cannot find the packages it is complaining about.
You need to find a repo, compatible with 8.2, that hosts those packages.

I don't used Debian, so I don't know if that simply means enabling a repo you already have installed, or if you have to go fish for a third party repo.

ta Knny, will see how i go

Are you sure you are following that guide? You mention last time you changed to jessie-backports in settings -> preferences. The guide has you adding jessie-backports to sources.list as a step from terminal. That is critical as current version on zm only exists in jessie-backports as it was dropped from debian due to lack of maintainer, and then someone took it on and got it into backports.
I just did a fresh install of Debian 8.2 and followed the guide for a complete and working zm 1.28.1. I even skipped apt-get install php5 mysql-server php-pear php5-mysql as dependencies were all taken care of by the package.

HI Steve, thanks for your post - i only started fiddling with preferences after i got bored, undisciplined am I - yes...

The great news is i got it going....AND i worked out where i was going wrong

I was going wrong by not ticking synaptic's box "Close when finished update". Instead i was closing it manually. The install logs su out and su becomes locked out, ticking the box retains su...

yer yer yer, i should be using apt and server version but i did all that a few years back with 10.04 & 12.4 and i didnt want to ssh cause my bios has lost my mac address's ...

Glad you got it going.

I was also installing in desktop version, you can still get a CLI and run all the commands as per guide.

i tried using apt-get in a su console from the desktop but would get to these last 3

Depends: libsys-mmap-perl but it is not installable
Depends: liburi-encode-perl but it is not installable
Depends: zip but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zoneminder-doc but it is not going to be installed

In most previous attempts i was getting a second set of boot options into a backport kernel (i think that is the way to describe it)..In this successful attempt, boot options are the same