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Anyone wanting an easy option for running 1.24.4 on natty, I have created a PPA at ppa:iconnor/zoneminder

This also contains some changes by me to allow zm to be easily distributed across multiple machines (to handle more cameras). As such, it will not automatically install mysql server.

It is an ongoing effort, and my first ppa. It works for me, but YMMV.

I just come across you ppa and installed in my natty. However, the install fail with error. (one with the ZM_SERVER_HOST empty value, and the after that I got
Starting ZoneMinder: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'ServerHost' in 'where clause' at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 183.
Can't execute: Unknown column 'ServerHost' in 'where clause' at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Debug.pm line 349
ZoneMinder::Debug::Fatal('Can\'t execute: Unknown column \'ServerHost\' in \'where clau...') called at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 183
failure

I also tried install zoneminder from source on natty. I got issue streaming on the web (I am sure the camera capture work as I can see each frame jpeg but just not stream able). I wonder that is problem with ffmpeg. I haven't debug too much. Do you have instruction of using ppa? I am happy to try it.

I have been making more changes, and I believe I have fixed these issues.

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade should do the trick.

This is a work-in-progress. Thanks for giving it a try!

Hi,

will there be a chance for packaging it also for Lucid 10.04 ?

Regards
Marc

who has many trouble with installing from source on lucid (will open an extra thread in near future)

I'm not likely to build it for lucid anytime soon. I just don't have any lucid boxes available.

Can you expand in more detail of some of the changes you have made? Do they include x264? libjpeg turbo?

I second vraa does it include Turbo and I read somewhere about a system optimization sript to decrease load? I plan on re doing my server from the ground up in the next week or so.

Hi,

I got this error while installing the version 1.24.9:
I have to say that before installing the package, I have been struggling during days trying to upgrade my 1.24.2 system to 1.24.4 or 1.25 without success, so maybe there's some trash left. Could you tell me which files do I need to clean/delete in order to have a clean installation?

Regards,

PacoLM

Isaac,

Thank you for your post relating to the ZM Debian install of ZM 1.24.4.

I am testing two step by steps to ZM 1.24.4. First 5 minute install is working but really too slow right now to be of use. Yours appears to be working but missing some configs, libraries and final ZM MySQL setup pieces.

I'm getting a similiar error after a couple of attempts.

~# service zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','zmuser',...) failed: Access denied for user 'zmuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 90
Can't call method "prepare_cached" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 92.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 101.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 46.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 46.
failure

Just to recap steps - Please tell me if this is correct
1 - Install base of Ubuntu 11.04 Server
2 - Options are SSH and LAMP server
3 - Install posted Debian release

First time run appears to be missing some libraries so I :

apt-get -y install libavcodec-extra-52 libavformat-extra-52 libswscale-extra-0 libavfilter-extra-1

I know I'm still missing apache2 configs (unless they are included in the Debian release).

A step by step included precursor files; configurations of ZM before first run would help.

Any suggestions?

Something to be aware of: the stuff that sets up the database has been removed (it needs to go in it's own package). So you need to create the db yourself wherever it should go.

You might find it easiest to first install zoneminder-1.24.2 from the standard ubuntu, and then add my ppa and upgrade to it.

Isaac

Thanks Isaac!

iconnor wrote:Something to be aware of: the stuff that sets up the database has been removed (it needs to go in it's own package). So you need to create the db yourself wherever it should go.

You might find it easiest to first install zoneminder-1.24.2 from the standard ubuntu, and then add my ppa and upgrade to it.

Isaac

This approach did not work for me. Zoneminder will no longer start (strict subs error).

I have installed 1.24.4 from ppa and I see the following message in the syslog:

zmfix[2394]: ERR [Can't run query: Unknown column 'serverhost' in 'where clause']

Where is the serverhost column set and how is it used?

Hi Isaac,
I tried to use your repository in natty with success, but to have ZM working I need to create, after package install, the DB running the zm_create.sql by hand.

I installed the libjpeg-turbo, but it seems that ZM compiled by you not support these.

It's true ?
There is a way to use libjpeg-turbo without compile ZM from SVN ?

Thanks in advance

- Pierluigi