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Nothing links or dlopens libvlc any more, so the dev package is no longer a build requirement anywhere: the debian, beowulf, ubuntu and split-package control files, the podman Containerfile, the redhat and opensuse specs, the centos CI image, and the five workflows that installed libvlc-dev. The redhat spec also required vlc-core at runtime, which was the dlopen target. Documentation follows: the libVLC source tab section, the macos note about libVLC not being found, and the WEB_FILTER_SOURCE source-type list. Two stale statements nearby are corrected while the files are open. The Remote source tab still said its RTSP method "may be removed in the future"; it was removed earlier on this branch. AGENTS.md still listed RemoteCameraRTSP and LibVLCCamera among the camera classes, both of which are now gone. All workflow yaml parses, the three edited rst files render, and the debian control field structure is unchanged apart from the removed entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015Y6FieTwEXuLhhR4e2yiax
zoneminder for Debian
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There is one manual step to get the web interface working.
You need to link /etc/zm/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf,
then reload the apache config (i.e. /etc/init.d/apache2 reload)
Changing the location for images and events
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Zoneminder, in its upstream form, stores data in /usr/share/zoneminder/. This
package modifies that by changing /usr/share/zoneminder/images and
/usr/share/zoneminder/events to symlinks to directories under
/var/cache/zoneminder.
There are numerous places these could be put and ways to do it. But, at the
moment, if you change this, an upgrade will fail with a warning about these
locations having changed (the reason for this was that previously, an upgrade
would silently revert the changes and cause event loss - refer
bug #608793).
If you do want to change the location, here are a couple of suggestions.
These lines would mount /dev/sdX1 to /video_storage, and then 'link' /video_storage
to the locations that ZoneMinder expects them to be at.
/dev/sdX1 /video_storage ext4 defaults 0 2
/video_storage/zoneminder/images /var/cache/zoneminder/images none bind 0 2
/video_storage/zoneminder/events /var/cache/zoneminder/events none bind 0 2
or if you have a separate partition for each:
/dev/sdX1 /var/cache/zoneminder/images ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdX2 /var/cache/zoneminder/events ext4 defaults 0 2
-- Peter Howard <pjh@northern-ridge.com.au>, Sun, 16 Jan 2010 01:35:51 +1100
Access to /dev/video*
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For cameras which require access to /dev/video*, zoneminder may need the
www-data user added to the video group in order to see those cameras:
adduser www-data video
Note that all web applications running on the zoneminder server will then have
access to all video devices on the system.
-- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:06:56 -0700