CentOS

The following is a Step-By-Step of how to install ZoneMinder 1.23.3 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.

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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 --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