Comments on: How to install ZoneMinder 1.24.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server

By: Henryjia18

Henryjia18 — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:40:00 +0000

it says no makefile

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:59:00 +0000

I am working with the same instructions trying to install 1.24.4 and
10.04.2 LTS. Everything progresses nicely until I try to make then:
***No targets specified and no makefile found message is returned.

By: Viktor Petersson

Viktor Petersson — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:29:41 +0000

Dig into the log-files then. I’ve never tried this on ESXi myself.

By: Labo Ts

Labo Ts — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:14:00 +0000

ESXI??
I downloaded and unzipped the files of the VA. transferred to the datastore, then added to the inventory.
This creates the virtual machine will not start.

By: EMF

EMF — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:27:00 +0000

And if you’re using a USB webcam that has cropping issues, you can patch the source before the ./configure line above. Look at http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=59472#59472 for more details.

By: EMF

EMF — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:56:00 +0000

The parameter kernel.shmall is measured in pages, not in bytes, so based on a 4096-byte PAGE_SIZE (getconf PAGE_SIZE), shouldn’t it be kernel.shmall=32768 to go with the kernel.shmmax=134217728?

By: squishydale.hypernexus.net » Zoneminder Security Server

squishydale.hypernexus.net » Zoneminder Security Server — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:22:06 +0000

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By: Jack Jenkins

Jack Jenkins — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:45:00 +0000

Hello: The above instructions worked for me with 1.24.2 and 10.04 LTS.

I am working with the same instructions trying to install 1.24.4 and 10.04.2 LTS. Everything progresses nicely until I try to make then: ***No targets specified and no makefile found message is returned.

Makefile.am and Makefile.in are present in /usr/local/ZoneMinder-1.24.4

Any thoughts?

Thanks,Jack

By: James Brown

James Brown — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:19:00 +0000

I found a simpler solution under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) that does not require recompiling, etc. What I did was basically disable the update script where it tries to update the zoneminder database to the latest version. Since the create sql file that ships w/ zoneminder already has all the updates for 1.24.2 installed there is no reason to do the updates (and they fail).

Here’s what I did …

1. sudo apt-get install zoneminder
(yes, this fails w/ an error about database ‘zm’ not existing)

2. launch phpMyAdmin from the browser

2.1. create database ‘zm’

2.2. create a new user named ‘zmuser’ with password ‘zmpass’ and give it all rights to ‘zm.*’

3. at the command line do the following:

3.1 mysql -uzmuser -pzmpass zm disconnect();
die( “Can’t find upgrade from version ‘$version’” );
}
} ### you added this line
print( “nDatabase upgrade to version “.ZM_VERSION.” successful.n” );
}

3.2.6 now press Ctrl-X to exit and tell nano to save the file (hit ‘Y’ and return)

4 sudo apt-get install zoneminder

The second install should work correctly with no errors. That’s it, zoneminder should now be installed and working.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:17:00 +0000

Right, but are you able to connect using the socket?

To try the following: “mysql –user=zminder –host=localhost zm”
(that’s basically wht zmpkg.pl is doing.)