ZoneMinder 1.24.2 release with Fedora 11/12

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You should be able to just do "yum install zoneminder", create the zm database, find the zm_create.sql file (rpm -ql zoneminder) and import it to mysql, then start zoneminder. This didn't work for me due to 2 problems. First was php.ini section short_open_tag = Off, set to on

short_open_tag = On

Restart/reload apache

sudo service httpd restart

The other problem was zm_create.sql had duplicate indexes reported using phpMyAdmin. Removed all "INSERT INTO MonitorPresets" and "INSERT INTO MonitorPresets" in zm_create.sql and that imported cleanly.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=50242

Manual Install Version 1.24.2

Version 1.23.3 has always compiled ok on Fedora 9/10/11 but I had problems with version 1.24.2.

Problems with compiling fixed by adding #include <cstdio> to all .cpp files in src directory and removing ccache package (yum remove ccache)

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=55152

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12515&sid=0da85eb2fc78917d7a78cf788603a320

If using ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel packages you may see problem compiling with libavutil.a . I could not get ffmpeg to compile so downloaded the Fedora source package and compiled it manually.

yumdownloader --source ffmpeg

sudo rpm -Uvh ffmpeg-0.5-5.20091026svn.fc12.src.rpm

Needed the following packages

sudo yum install dirac-devel faad2-devel gsm-devel imlib2-devel lame-devel libdc1394-devel libtheora-devel libvdpau-devel openjpeg-devel schroedinger-devel speex-devel texi2html x264-devel xvidcore-devel yasm

See http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2009/11/recompiling-ffmpeg-for-fedora-12-to-add-faac-support.html (don't need to add faac support, just follow procedure)

My rpmbuild failed so from the BUILD/ffmpeg-20091026

make
sudo make install
sudo make install-libs

and configured ZoneMinder to use /usr/local for FFMPEG

./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 --with-extralibs="-L/usr -L/usr/lib/mysql" ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl --with-ffmpeg=/usr/local