Setting up a CCTV Linux System

[nujinini]

Hello!

I want to install a cctv surveillance system that is linux based in my front yard.

It will also be a trial balloon of sorts because I am thinking of eventually offering this the compound where we live. About 15 homes. Burglary has been quite rampant in the past 2 years.

Things I expect to do is to monitor and record on a HD all things that happened at least for the past 24 hours. Purely for security purposes. I know there are companies that offer such but can somebody possibly point me to a site where I can be guided to set-up my own system. Linux based only please

Thanks a lot!

[Irithori]

Dont have personal experience with this, but this looks promising:
ZoneMinder: Linux Home CCTV and Video Camera Security with Motion Detection

[nujinini]

Thank you!

I checked it out and I am pretty interested. In fact I download it already and when I was installing the .deb, it encountered dependency problems.

jun@jun-laptop ~ $ sudo dpkg -i '/home/jun/Desktop/zoneminder_1.24.1-1_i386.deb' 
(Reading database ... 141111 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace zoneminder 1.24.2-1 (using .../zoneminder_1.24.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement zoneminder ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zoneminder:
 zoneminder depends on apache2; however:
  Package apache2 is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-php4; however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not installed.
  Package libapache2-mod-php4 is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on php5 | php4; however:
  Package php5 is not installed.
  Package php4 is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on php5-mysql | php4-mysql; however:
  Package php5-mysql is not installed.
  Package php4-mysql is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libphp-serialization-perl; however:
  Package libphp-serialization-perl is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libdate-manip-perl; however:
  Package libdate-manip-perl is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libmime-perl; however:
  Package libmime-perl is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libmime-lite-perl; however:
  Package libmime-lite-perl is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on mysql-server; however:
  Package mysql-server is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on mysql-client; however:
  Package mysql-client is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libarchive-zip-perl; however:
  Package libarchive-zip-perl is not installed.
 zoneminder depends on libdevice-serialport-perl; however:
  Package libdevice-serialport-perl is not installed.
dpkg: error processing zoneminder (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zoneminder
jun@jun-laptop ~ $

Anyway, I think I will pursue this one.

[Irithori]

there is a install documentation for debian.
As .doc file for whatever reason, but meh.
http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/...er_install.doc