How to Install and Uninstall motion Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "motion" package

This is a short guide on how to install motion on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install motion

2. Uninstall "motion" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall motion on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove motion $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the motion package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: motion
Source: motion (4.1.1-1.1)
Version: 4.1.1-1.1+b2
Installed-Size: 811
Maintainer: Ximin Luo
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.0), libavdevice58 (>= 7:4.0), libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1), libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libmariadb3 (>= 3.0.0), libpq5, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libswscale5 (>= 7:4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), adduser
Recommends: ffmpeg
Suggests: default-mysql-client, postgresql-client
Description: V4L capture program supporting motion detection
Description-md5: 2699ebee3b63a553c62f7f823c1643ca
Homepage: https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion
Tag: hardware::camera, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, use::monitor, works-with-format::TODO,
works-with::image, works-with::video
Section: video
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/motion/motion_4.1.1-1.1+b2_amd64.deb
Size: 296240
MD5sum: 3f21cc218c7b1f3a84a0defaafea0786
SHA256: e88801cc31af76c06918f6dcf0877db650420e99bb5064e08e1956768d393d66