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Hi,

pretty much n00b-o-matic here... I have Ubuntu Fiesty Desktop installed on my machine, and wanted to try out zoneminder.

I followed the wiki for Ubuntu 7.04 (fiesty) and did the following, but nothing is happening, and I am kinda stuck...just need some pointers.

here is what I did:
1. downloaded ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zonemin ... 6_i386.deb

2. ran the install by clicking on the .deb (I guess it's the same as dpkg)

3. sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf

4. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

So...now what ? since this is .deb, does it do all the building steps, or is that something still I have to do ? (sorry n00b)

Trying to move fwd here, I found a thread that may help:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) installation walkthrough (kind of)
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... hlight=deb

I figured I was probably at this step after installing the .deb, so..I did the following :
12. apt-get install patch (This installs patch so you can, uhmm… patch files)
13. cd /usr/share/zoneminder
14. wget http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads/zm- ... eset.patch
15. wget http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads/zm- ... lter.patch
16. nano zm-1.22.3-monpreset.patch (Remove the “web/” from then first two lines the save it.)
17. patch -p0 < zm-1.22.3-monpreset.patch
18. patch -p0 < zm-1.22.3-filter.patch
19. chown www-data:www-data zm_actions.php
20. chown www-data:www-data zm_html_view_monitor.php
21. shutdown –r now

so not sure what next....appreciate any help ...

I've never used the two extra patches (steps 14 and 15 + onwards). However it should all be working once the .deb is installed (or after the extra steps I assume). You should then just have to point your browser at http://{zoneminder machine}/zm

PeterHoward wrote:I've never used the two extra patches (steps 14 and 15 + onwards). However it should all be working once the .deb is installed (or after the extra steps I assume). You should then just have to point your browser at http://{zoneminder machine}/zm

thanks Peter,

I was going to try that next.. because of being new to all this, I wasn't sure if the .deb did all the build and config steps shown in the docs.

I'll see how far I get ...

My steps... Works every time on feisty and Edgy

Link Apache Restart Apache suid zmfix Run zmfix
edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following lines (for 128meg shared mem)

kernel.shmall = 134217728
kernel.shmmax = 134217728

Download cambozola.jar and put it in /usr/share/zoneminder
Enable in options->Images.

test with xawtv (-nodga may be needed)

ok, thanks for that...

I have zoneminder up on the browser now, but no image yet from the camera.
Pretty sure it is because i have no idea what the image location is supposed to be. From IE browser (activeX) the location is /ctl/index.htm, but I know that isnt what zoneminder monitor wants. This is a network camera, VCenter (cheapie).

I'll poke around before bothering you guys, thanks for all the help so far.

As long as you can get an image through Firefox off the cam it should work. Just right click on the image and check the properties.

wow, I am stoked !!

got the image up on the first camera.

for what it's worth, this is a Gadspot or Vcenter IP cam.

the image path is : /Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

I was able to do a :
wget http://{ip address to cam}/Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

and that worked, and putting the right path in the monitor got the camera image up. all working now.

THANKS EVERYONE !!

cordel wrote:As long as you can get an image through Firefox off the cam it should work. Just right click on the image and check the properties.

I'll try that, but I am pretty sure I can't get the image props from IE since it is under activeX GUI. Although from a forum search, I found the correct path to the camera's image.

thanks..

Thats why I said to use Firefox.

thanks..

metafizx wrote:wow, I am stoked !!

got the image up on the first camera.

for what it's worth, this is a Gadspot or Vcenter IP cam.

the image path is : /Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

I was able to do a :
wget http://{ip address to cam}/Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

and that worked, and putting the right path in the monitor got the camera image up. all working now.

THANKS EVERYONE !!

What model camera are you using? I found them by mistake and notice that there ip cameras were alot cheaper that anything else.

I followed these directions (on an Edgy server installation), but get errors complaining that dependencies ffmpeg and libmime-perl are missing.

apt-get -y install ffmpeg
and
apt-get -y install libmime-perl

both produce errors:
"Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ffmpeg has no installation candidate"

I'm not very experienced with Debian/Ubuntu, as this is my first system using this distro (I have previously used mainly Fedora)

Any hints on why I can't install these?

Thanks!

id stick with fedora then, even better use ctu zm as that will just work

sgr wrote:I followed these directions (on an Edgy server installation), but get errors complaining that dependencies ffmpeg and libmime-perl are missing.

apt-get -y install ffmpeg
and
apt-get -y install libmime-perl

both produce errors:
"Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ffmpeg has no installation candidate"

Have you enabled "universe" in apt? If not, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the "deb" and "deb-src" lines ending in "universe", then run "apt-get update" and try again.