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Install On Debian

starbasessd edited this page Sep 26, 2021 · 31 revisions

Before Proceeding

  • Read the general Installation page first.
  • These instructions apply to Debian and Debian-based distributions. For Ubuntu and Raspbian however, you should check out their specific instructions.
  • All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using su -.
  • Install instructions confirmed as of 26 Sep 2021 on Debian 10 (Buster).

Instructions

  1. Skip this step for Debian 9 or newer. For older Debian versions, you'll need to add the following repo to your apt sources, replacing [name] with wheezy (Debian 7) or jessie (Debian 8). This is required for ffmpeg:

     echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org [name] main non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
     apt-get update
     apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
     apt-get update     # yes, again
    
  2. Install motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

     apt-get install motion ffmpeg v4l-utils -y
     systemctl stop motion
     systemctl disable motion
    

    note: Precompiled binaries of motion can be found here, if you're not happy with what you find in the official Debian repos.

  3. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

     apt-get install python-pip python-dev python-setuptools curl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libz-dev -y
    

    note: Python 2.7 is required. If your system still runs Python 2.6 or older, please upgrade.

  4. Install motioneye, which will automatically pull Python dependencies (tornado, jinja2, pillow and pycurl):

     pip install motioneye
    

    note: If pillow installation fails, you can try installing it from official repos using apt-get install python-pillow.

  5. Prepare the configuration directory:

     mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
     cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
    
  6. Prepare the media directory:

     mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
    
  7. Add an init script, configure it to run at startup and start the motionEye server:

    • Debian 7, sysvinit-based:

        cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.init-debian /etc/init.d/motioneye
        chmod +x /etc/init.d/motioneye
        update-rc.d -f motioneye defaults
        /etc/init.d/motioneye start
      
    • Debian 8 and newer, systemd-based:

        cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service
        systemctl daemon-reload
        systemctl enable motioneye
        systemctl start motioneye
      
  8. To upgrade to the newest version of motioneye, after it has been released, just issue:

         pip install motioneye --upgrade
    
    **note** that will update all the other required dependecies
    
    • Debian 7 or earlier:

        service motioneye restart
      
    • Debian 8 or later:

        systemctl restart motioneye
      
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