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Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:07 pm**

Hi,

I have a clean/new Debian 8.5 64 (Jessie) installation and try to install ZoneMinder following this guide:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8_64 ... e_Easy_Way

However, the installation fails, when I run

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apt-get install zoneminder

it shows

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 zoneminder : Depends: libjs-mootools (>= 1.4.5~debian1) but it is not installable
              Depends: libmime-lite-perl but it is not installable
              Depends: libphp-serialization-perl but it is not installable
              Depends: libnet-sftp-foreign-perl but it is not installable
              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
              Recommends: zoneminder-doc (>= 1.29.0+dfsg-1~bpo8+1) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: ffmpeg but it is not going to be installed or
                          libav-tools but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

It seems there was a similar discussion here at viewtopic.php?t=23870, but I cannot see a solution for my situation...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tom

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:26 pm**

The error message you posted indicates a repo problem. Debian cannot find several packages needed by ZoneMinder.

If you read through the entire thread you referenced in your message, it was solved by properly adding the jessie-backports repo.
That sounds like the correct thing to do in your case.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:27 pm**

Thanks knnniggett, it works now!
I have overseen the jessie-backports repo thing in the thread. Added it to /etc/apt/sources.list and everything installed fine.

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