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Going well. Thanks to your help.

I have it installed and got the first instance up on my browser a while ago.

It doesn't appear to see my webcam, nor the wireless IP cams - but the latter I expect to have to reconfigure.

But I thought it might find a webcam fastened to the pc locally.

i did but I didn't realise I was using one of the desktops provided with Ubuntu. That's what Mint is? And the word 'server' drove me away thinking I don't have a server, just a normal install. Like in windows there's two different softwares there.

Thanks for the link. I'll embark...

well thanks for all that. i have installed LAMP and tasksel. just now i don't want your handy script because i want to keep mysql on the basis that i'm familiar with it. so that sends me back to following the wiki that directed me to finding my ubuntu ver which turns out to be 16.04 for my Mint whic...

Sorry, i have charged off down the wrong track again looks like ...... I'm always doing that. If I would just slow down I'd go better.... Okay. I'll go back and start following the wiki..

thanks for that. i was expecting an icon.. something after the style of cheese or 'yawcam' (i use on windows). when i get back to that machine i'll look again, maybe it is there after all... access from a browser? like what page? how? maybe i'll find out... Edit: I think I found out. https://www.how...

Use a terminal means use the SUDO cmd line I guess? I did that. With two things. first one went alright, zoneminder appeared to go alright but hasn't in fact turned up. It's not there. (the first one was simply Opera browser, it installed fine). I just issue sudo apt install zoneminder or something ...

I meant when i get Mint Software manager up it doesn't seem to be able to look around and find Zoneminder. So I found myself at packages.debian.org and I tried to download/install Synaptic - a download manager, I think, right? - and Zoneminder. Some package installer popped up and apparently tried t...

Well that's good but now how do I get it? I go to zoneminder site and now I know which ver to get but when I click on that one I go to a site that seems to only offer a debian distro with zoneminder included... I can't get software manager her in Mint to find it... is there some way I can? Or has so...

okay, thanks, I'll download it and try.. using cheese right now which works (very slow frame rate, don't know if that's the fault of my camera or my computer or cheese - or Mint ) but doesn't have many features... I'd love to be able to monitor my iP cams, had ISPY and it didn't go too well.

Hi, I have Linux Mint and I'm looking for webcam software. It is not clear to me if yours works only on Debian or would also work on Mint?