How To Install motion on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install motion on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is motion
motion is:
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.
Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via configuration files.
The output from motion can be: - jpg/ppm image files - mpeg/mp4/swf/flv/mov/ogg video sequences
Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus, you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.
There are three methods to install motion on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install motion Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install motion using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install motion
Install motion Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install motion using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install motion
Install motion Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install motion using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install motion
How To Uninstall motion on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the motion package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove motion
Uninstall motion And Its Dependencies
To uninstall motion and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove motion
Remove motion Configurations and Data
To remove motion configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge motion
Remove motion configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove motion configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge motion
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install motion package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
