Debian

Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system with a focus on stability. It's based on a sophisticated package management system that lets you choose from three releases of varying stability. The software packages included in the stable release have been tested thoroughly and are ideal for a server environment, whereas testing and unstable releases have more recent versions of software which usually contain some bugs. Ironically, Debian's unstable release is often more stable than many other distributions' final releases.

Installation Guides

Zoneminder is now in Debian "unstable" (as of 2007-03-12) so you should be able to just "apt-get install zoneminder" if you include "unstable" packages. Alternately:

• Debian 3.1 + Zoneminder 1.22.x Installation Guide (ZM from source - without ffmpeg) using stable packages

• Debian + ZM Installation Guide (using a debian ZM package requiring unstable ffmpeg/libavcodec2/liblame0)

• Debian Etch The above are outdated
• Debian Squeeze

• Debian Etch + ZoneMinder 1.23.x in French Installation Guide for Debian in French.

You can also use the following guide to install Zoneminder from source in a Debian Lenny based machine. The guide is in spanish and the repositories used are from Chile. If you want to, just use the ones of your country in your sources.list file:

• Debian Lenny + Zoneminder 1.24 in spanish

• Debian 5 Lenny + Zoneminder 1.24 mit Spectra8 Karte in deutsch

• Debian Lenny and ZM1.24 (all stable) May 2010 (English)

• Debian 6 Squeeze 64-bit with ZoneMinder 1.25.0 Preview, FFmpeg, libjpeg-turbo, Webmin, Cambozola(Spanish Diciembre 2011)

• Debian 8.1 64-bit with Zoneminder 1.28.1 the Easy Way(Obsolete Feb 2016)

• Debian 8 64-bit with Zoneminder 1.29.0 the Easy Way

Installation Notes

/etc/init.d/zm script - slightly modified from the original to correctly echo output on debian

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5391

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6215

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5892

./configure --with-mysql=/usr

--with-webdir=/var/www/zm

--with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --sysconfdir=/etc

--with-ffmpeg=/usr/local

--with-webuser=www-data

--with-webgroup=www-data CPPFLAGS="-I /usr/local/ssl/include -I /usr/local/lib"

Additional Notes

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With a large number of cameras (or just a few HD cameras) you may also need to increase the size of /run (tmpfs). Editing /etc/sysctl.conf is no longer enough.

The easiest way to do this is to add the following line to /etc/fstab (where 50% is the size of /run in regards to your physical memory)

   tmpfs /run tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=50%,mode=755 0 0