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Here is a set of instructions that has worked for me to install ZoneMinder 1.23.1 on a fresh install of PCLinuxOS 2008 'MiniMe' using RPMs by rdmelin. 

See http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/ZMliveCD and http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/ZMliveCD_Update_RPM_notes

This wicki assumes you can install from the PCLinuxOS MiniMe CD and your hardware is compliant.<br>

Use at your own risk, your mileage may vary, may cause drowsiness, keep out of reach of children, do not operate heavy machinery ... 

Start by downloading and installing the 'MiniMe' (livecd) version of PCLinuxOS. I was not able to get LVM or Linux Raid configured from the installer, so if you're going to use those leave adequate space on the drives and create a minimal '/' partition and add your other volumes later.
 
The first thing I do is setup the network
 Taskbar -> Configure your Computer -> Network -> Set Up a New Network

I usually restart x as I manually set the hostname.

I do everything in a konsole (as root!) from this point on.

setup repository

Get the required files
 wget http://sentrix.homeip.net/rpms/noarch/perl-Astro-SunTime-0.01-1.noarch.rpm 
 wget http://sentrix.homeip.net/rpms/noarch/perl-PHP-Serialization-0.27-1.noarch.rpm  
 wget http://sentrix.homeip.net/rpms/noarch/perl-X10-0.03-1.noarch.rpm
 wget http://sentrix.homeip.net/rpms/pclos2007/zm-1.23.1-4pclos2007.i586.rpm

Install using apt
 apt-get install perl-Astro-SunTime-0.01-1.noarch.rpm
 apt-get install perl-PHP-Serialization-0.27-1.noarch.rpm
 apt-get install perl-X10-0.03-1.noarch.rpm
 apt-get install zm-1.23.1-3pclos2007.i586.rpm

Set the db username and password
 kwrite /etc/zm.conf

start the mysql and apache services
 service mysqld start
 service httpd start

Initialize the ZM databases
 /usr/lib/zm/bin/zminit

And finally, start ZoneMinder
 service zm start

Rename the rc.d processes so that ZM quits before MySQL
 rename /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/k00zm /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/k000zm
 rename /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/k00zm /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/k000zm
 rename /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/k00zm /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/k000zm

Start a browser, go to http://localhost/zm <br>
log in as admin / admin

Now go play with your system ;)


== Update ==
Due to [http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58&topic=37068.0 a package request] in the [http://www.pclinuxos.com PCLinuxOS] forums, work is currently under way to add ZoneMinder to the standard PCLOS repos. Please stay tuned for updates.