Fedora

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored, community-supported open source project. Its stated goal is to promote the rapid progress of free (as in freedom) and open source software and content, and its rapid innovation is possible using open processes and public forums.

The project is led by the Fedora Project Board, which is comprised of community leaders and Red Hat members, and this group steers the direction of the distribution it develops. Red Hat employees work with the code alongside community members, and many Fedora Project innovations make their way into new releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

What follows is the official way to install the latest version of ZoneMinder a recent version of Fedora.

Zmrepo - A ZoneMinder repository for RPM based distros

The ZoneMinder development team would like to introduce you to a new, easier way to install ZoneMinder on Fedora. Zmrepo is meant to be a turn-key solution. There is no compiling, no installing modules from CPAN, and no more complicated repository instructions.

This repository brings together a ZoneMinder rpm built by the development team, with all features enabled. This is in comparison to past ZoneMinder rpm's found in the Fedora repositories, which do not have ffmpeg support built-in. Zmrepo includes all dependencies that are not found in the default Fedora repositories. A few Perl modules are built by us, but all the rest of the dependencies are mirrored from popular sites such as EPEL and RPMFusion. There is no longer a need to add these additional repositories to your system. Zmrepo takes care of that for you.

Purpose

The primary purpose for developing ZoneMinder rpms for Fedora is to get an idea of how well ZoneMinder works on the bleeding edge of software development. We don't use Fedora in our production systems and consequently these rpms do not get the same share of testing that the ZoneMinder rpms for RHEL/CentOS do. However, they do give us the unique opportunity to solve any problems caused by new software widgets (looking at you systemd) before they trickle down to RHEL/CentOS.

Who Should Use

Those that want to use the latest and greatest packages available should use this repository over the RHEL/CentOS repository. Keep in mind that this comes with the real possibility Fedora may throw in something new, which might cause a problem with ZoneMinder.

Supported Versions

Fedora distributions have a relatively short life cycle. A new version of Fedora is scheduled to be released every 6 months. It is the goal of the ZoneMinder development team to provide and support ZoneMinder rpms for the two most recent versions of Fedora. Rpms built for older versions of Fedora may exist in zmrepo, but they will not be maintained and may be deleted at some point in the future.

Installation

Please navigate to http://zmrepo.zoneminder.com/ and select your distro from the drop-down to view the installation instructions.

Remember to follow the steps documented in README.Fedora following installation of the ZoneMinder rpm.

Archived Installation Instructions

What follows is a link to old installation instructions which predate rpm installations from zmrepo or rpmfusion. They are kept solely for reference. Fedora/Archived