Ubuntu 8.10 Vanilla 32bit (with FFmpeg SVN, ZoneMinder SVN, jscalendar-1.0, cambozola-0.7)

ZoneMinder on Ubuntu 8.10 - Vanilla Fresh Install

• experiences including graphical X server/desktop may be found at the discussion of this article;

Update Ubuntu 8.10

aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade

Make System file changes (For ZoneMinder Shared Mem)

For this section, I will refer you to the following 2 posts:

Forum Post on Shared Memory

ZoneMinder FAQ with Formulas

Using these calculations, for 6GB of Physical Memory I would use this:

echo "#Below are for ZoneMinder#" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "kernel.shmall = 1536000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "kernel.shmmax = 3221225472" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Changes for Lib Paths

echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ffmpeg.conf
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
ldconfig

Install All Prerequisites

aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` automake perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl \
libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev \
libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libmime-perl libstdc++6 libwww-perl \
zlib1g zip unzip patch ntp openssl libpcre3-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-progs libcurl4-gnutls-dev munin munin-node libmime-lite-perl \
netpbm libbz2-dev subversion sysvconfig checkinstall

Install Perl Modules

perl -MCPAN -e shell

install CPAN
exit

perl -MCPAN -e shell 
install Sys::Mmap 
exit

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install YAML PHP::Serialization Module::Load X10::ActiveHome

exit

FFmpeg & ZoneMinder from SVN

Install FFmpeg

cd /usr/src

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pthreads

make
checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "3:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3" --default

ldconfig

Install & Config ZoneMinder

cd /usr/src
svn co http://svn.zoneminder.com/svn/zm/trunk zm
cd zm

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser \
ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass --enable-debug=yes --with-webgroup=www-data --with-webuser=www-data

aclocal
autoconf
automake
make

mysql -u root -p < db/zm_create.sql
mysql -u root -p

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

checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=ZoneMinder --pkgversion "1.24.svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --default

Post Install

Install cambozola.jar

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozola-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz
cp cambozola-0.76/dist/cambozola.jar /var/www

Install jscalendar-1.0

cd /usr/src
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jscalendar/jscalendar-1.0.zip?download
unzip jscalendar-1.0.zip
mkdir /var/www/tools/jscalendar
cp -R jscalendar-1.0/* /var/www/tools/jscalendar

Remove existing index.html

rm /var/www/index.html

Make sure ZoneMinder starts automatically

nano -w /etc/init.d/zm

#!/bin/sh
# description: Control ZoneMinder as a Service
# chkconfig: 2345 99 99

# Source function library.
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog=ZoneMinder
ZM_PATH_BIN="/usr/local/bin"
command="$ZM_PATH_BIN/zmpkg.pl"

start() {
        echo -n "Starting $prog: "
        $command start
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
        [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n "Stopping $prog: "
        $command stop
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
        [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
}
status() {
        result=`$command status`
        if [ "$result" = "running" ]; then
                echo "ZoneMinder is running"
                RETVAL=0
        else
                echo "ZoneMinder is stopped"
                RETVAL=1
        fi
}

case "$1" in
'start')
        start
        ;;
'stop')
        stop
        ;;
'restart')
        stop
        start
        ;;
'status')
        status
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart | status }"
        RETVAL=1
        ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Make /etc/init.d/zm executable:

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zm

Use "sysvconfig" to enable ZoneMinder

Reboot System

http://localhost/ (not http://localhost/zm !!!)

Again, this is meant to be installed on a FRESH install of 8.10 with no modifications. Also, this guide is meant to be run as root, as such I have left out all the 'sudo' prefixes.

Please try and let me know your success. I've installed this way 3 times from scratch on a virtual machine, and I think this guide is now complete.