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Install On Ubuntu (19.10 or Earlier)

starbasessd edited this page Nov 1, 2020 · 1 revision

Before Proceeding

  • Read the general Installation page first.
  • These instructions apply to Ubuntu distributions. They may work for other Ubuntu derivatives (such as Linux Mint) but they haven't been tested.
  • All commands require root; use sudo before each command or become root using sudo -i.

Instructions

  1. Skip this step for Ubuntu 15.04 or newer. For older Ubuntu versions, you'll need to add a PPA to your apt sources, in order to install ffmpeg:

     add-apt-repository -y ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next
     apt-get update
    
  2. Install motion, ffmpeg and v4l-utils:

     apt-get install motion ffmpeg v4l-utils
    

    note: Precompiled binaries of motion can be found here.

  3. Install the dependencies from the repositories:

     apt-get install python-pip python-dev curl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev
    
  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:

    • Ubuntu 14.10 or earlier, upstart-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
      
    • Ubuntu 15.04 or later, 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, just issue:

         pip install motioneye --upgrade
    
    • Ubuntu 14.10 or earlier:

        service motioneye restart
      
    • Ubuntu 15.04 or later:

        systemctl restart motioneye
      
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