CentOS
The following is a Step-By-Step of how to install ZoneMinder 1.12.3 With CentOS 5.1. It is a current work in progress so first will be listed the steps, and then the explanations will be added.
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget http://www2.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.23.3.tar.gz wget http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/downloads/cambozola.jar
yum install screen
screen
yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel php php-gd php-mysql httpd gcc pcre-devel gd mod_ssl glib2-devel gcc-c++ ntp gnutls-devel libjpeg-devel perl-Archive-Tar perl-MIME-Lite perl-MIME-tools perl-Date-Manip perl-Time-HiRes perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-PHP-Serialization perl-Device-SerialPort perl-Archive-Zip perl-Module-Load
yum -y update
svn checkout -r 11879 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg cd ffmpeg/ ./configure make make install make install-libs
chkconfig httpd on chkconfig mysqld on chkconfig ntpd on service httpd start service mysqld start service ntpd start
cd /root/ tar -zxvf ZoneMinder-1.23.3.tar.gz cd ZoneMinder-1.23.3
./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass
./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --with-webuser=apache --with-webgroup=apache --with-ffmpeg=/usr ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass
./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --with-webuser=apache --with-webgroup=apache ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass
make make install
mysql
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_root_password'); >Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> create database zm; >Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> grant CREATE, INSERT, SELECT, DELETE, UPDATE on zm.* to your_zm_user@localhost; >Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR your_zm_user@localhost=PASSWORD('your_zm_password_from_above'); >Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.25 sec)
mysql> exit >Bye
mysql -u root -p < db/zm_create.sql zm
cp scripts/zm /etc/init.d/ chmod +x /etc/init.d/zm chkconfig zm on
cp cambozola.jar /var/www/html/zm/ [tick the support for it on http://local-ip/zm]
service zm start
