How to Install ZoneMinder, v1.34.12. on UBUNTU 20.04 LTS ( Focal Fossa)

Installation of Zoneminder To install Zoneminder v1.34.12. (stable)Please refer Connor’s web site Open the terminal and run following commands.

sudo su

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.34

sudo apt-get update

apt install zoneminder

Configuring Mysql and Changing root password

rm /etc/mysql/my.cnf

cp /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf

/etc/init.d/mysql start

mysql

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES ;

quit

Creating zm sql data base

mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

mysql

CREATE USER 'zmuser'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass';

(If CREATE does not work try with ALTER )

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zm.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES ;

quit

mysqladmin -uroot -p reload

Configuring Zoneminder

chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf

chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

adduser www-data video

a2enmod cgi

a2enconf zoneminder

a2enmod rewrite

a2enmod headers

a2enmod expires<c/ode>

Starting Zoneminder and apache

systemctl enable zoneminder

service zoneminder start

service apache2 reload

Open zoneminder web console (http://localhost/zm/)

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