ZoneMinder
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All documentation for ZoneMinder is now online at http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation

## Overview

ZoneMinder is an integrated set of applications which provide a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any CCTV or security cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and also supports most IP network cameras. 

## Requirements

If you are installing from a package, that package should provide all of the needed core components.

### Packages

If you are compiling from source, the below list contains the packages needed to get ZoneMinder built:

#### Debian / Ubuntu

```bash
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libdbi-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libmime-perl libpcre3 libwww-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libsys-mmap-perl yasm subversion automake autoconf libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg-turbo8 apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli
```

#### CentOS / Redhat

### ffmpeg

This release of ZoneMinder has been tested on and works with ffmpeg version N-55540-g93f4277.
