View source for Slackware 12.2

This guide is very rough at the moment, without any sort of formatting and therefore subject to reader interpretation.

All this page is intended to do is get a Slackware 12.2 system up and running with ZoneMinder installed. I can't (won't) take the time to address any hardware specific issues. For help in this regard, remember that "Google is your friend".

Hope it helps, 

Nuck.


Get a Slackware 12.2 system installed. - 

Download the dvd from somewhere, burn it and boot it. 

login and create your disk partitions by running fdisk 

run setup and install the system (I'm lazy, so I choose "install everything".) 

Be sure to enable httpd and mysqld. 

reboot and then login. 

Edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and fix up apache by setting a hostname, enabling php and adding a virtual host. 

Edit /etc/httpd/php.ini and change short_open_tag to on. 

Copy one of the /etc/my-*.cnf files to /etc/my.cnf and edit as (if) required. 

set up mysql databases with - 

mysql_install_db --user=mysql 

start mysqld - (needs to be running for perl tests) 

/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start  

update perl and install any dependencies - (make life easy and accept all of the defaults.) 

perl -MCPAN -e shell 

install MD5 

install Bundle::CPAN 

reload cpan 

install LWP::UserAgent 

install Date::Manip 

install MIME::Lite 

install MIME::Entity 

install DBD::mysql 

install Sys::Mmap 

install X10::ActiveHome 

install PHP::Serialization 

install Module::Load 

install ffmpeg dependencies - 

go to http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/slackware/addon/slacky/slackware-12.2/ , find, download and install the following - (they are all within 2 or 3 directories) 

amrnb-7.0.0.2-i486-2as.tgz 

amrwb-7.0.0.3-i486-2as.tgz 

dirac-1.0.0-i486-2as.tgz 

faac-1.26-i486-4sl.tgz 

faad2-2.6.1-i486-5sl.tgz 

imlib2-1.4.2-i486-3sl.tgz 

lame-3.98.2-i486-2sl.tgz 

libdc1394-2.1.0-i486-1sl.tgz 

libgsm-1.0.12-i686-4as.tgz 

libnut-20081213-i686-1as.tgz 

libusb1-1.0.0-i486-1as.tgz 

schroedinger-1.0.5-i486-1as.tgz 

speex-1.2rc1-i486-2dav.tgz 

x264-20090107-i486-1as.tgz 

xvidcore-1.2.1-i486-2sl.tgz 

Install ffmpeg - on the same site you pulled the previous files from, in the multimedia directory, find the ffmpeg directory, go into the src dir and get these 2 files 

ffmpeg.SlackBuild 

doinst.sh 

then source the install file - 

. ./ffmpeg.SlackBuild 

which will download the latest svn, build it and create an installable .tgz. Install it once done. 

If you want XAWTV for setting up and testing hardware (recommended) - 

Download, build and install (read the included docs) 

tv-fonts-1.1.tar.bz2 

zvbi-0.2.33.tar.bz2 

xawtv-20070625-114215.tar.gz 

when configuring zvbi and xawtv use the options --prefix=/usr and --sysconfdir=/etc 

download either ZM 1.23.3 or ZM 1.24 

untar and cd into the zm-"version" directory and run - Code:

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/htdocs --with-cgidir=/srv/httpd/cgi-bin \ 

--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc > configured_this 2>&1 


then look through "configured_this" and if you are satisfied that all is good, run Code:

make > built_this 2>&1 

then look through "built_this" and if you are satisfied that you got a clean build 
run Code:

make install 

or if you'd prefer to do a test run on make install, run 

make -n install > install_this 2>&1 

look over install_this and if you are happy with what you see, then run make install 

while in the zm-"version" directory run - 

mysql 

> source db/zm_create.sql 

> use mysql; 

> grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass'; 

> quit; 

and then run

mysqladmin reload 

set a root password for mysql and lock it down. run the following - 

mysql_secure_installation 

and finally 

cp scripts/zm /etc/rc.d/rc.zm 

chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.zm 


You're done.