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If you are working from a desktop install of Ubuntu, open Firefox, enter http://localhost/zm and it should open the Zoneminder page. If you are trying to connect from another PC or device, enter: http://server-ip/zm where server-ip is the network address of your Zoneminder server. Use Google to look...

You need to upgrade your database and permissions. See the WIKI for Ubuntu upgrades to get the code.

The procedure you cite was written for a server install. You seem to be running a desktop which should not be an issue. To do the install from a desktop open the terminal, become root, sudo su, and enter the commands cited. Copy and paste is recommended to avoid fumble fingers. Entering localhost/zm...

Good news and bad news.. Good news is I was able to take the time to install a test 12.04 and work through some errors to add the PPA. Bad news is the Precise builds on the PPA are showing errors and will not install. I was able to install 1.25... but I'm sure no one wants that. You may want to go b...

There is a ZM 1.29.0 version on the PPA for Ubuntu 12.04. Not too sure of the install instructions ( I have not gone back to 12.04 to do one). You could use the WIKI instructions for 14.04 as a guide but I can't guarantee they will work. You will have to create the database manually like all the oth...

You need to push on with the next steps to manually create the database. The error you see is caused by some remaining code that tries to upgrade the database (will actually do this when you do an upgrade from a prior ZM version). The package maintainer announced a while back that the Ubuntu install...

Hmm... I ran the install procedure (from the WIKI) on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 server install this afternoon and everything worked as it was supposed to work. I did the install from another PC and just copied and pasted the commands into the Putty terminal. You were getting a response from the API so th...

Not that I'm aware of.
Your error tells me that ZM can't communicate with your camera for some reason. Wrong resolution is a likely culprit. did you try shutting down the 1.28 server?

What source type are you using? If VLC there may be a couple of libraries you need to add.

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Linux distribution/version and the instructions you followed?

You said that you upgraded but inferred that you followed the "Easy Way" instructions? Those are for install. The upgrade instructions are located here: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Common_Issues_with_Zoneminder_Installation_on_Ubuntu#Ubuntu_14.04_-_ZM_1.26.5_or_later_to_1.29.0_or_the_lates...

Thanks for the write up! Good to know the upgrade procedure works for others... I revisited some of my older install procedures and discovered that I had recommended that libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev as well as vlc be installed with Zoneminder. Will have to see if others come up with the same results. ...

Try these instructions:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... e_easy_way

While not an expert in this area I remember seeing comments that you need to have permissions set to match your Apache user (www-data in Debian) in the destination directory. Have also seen that symbolic links may not work...

Search the WIKI for using add on drive.