How to Install and Uninstall motion Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 09,2024

You can also install and uninstall the motion on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "motion" package

Please follow the instructions below to install motion on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                motion
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "motion" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall motion on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the motion package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: motion
Version: 4.5.1-2
Installed-Size: 2267
Maintainer: Nicolas Mora
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavcodec59 (>= 7:5.0), libavdevice59 (>= 7:5.0), libavformat59 (>= 7:5.0), libavutil57 (>= 7:5.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libmariadb3 (>= 3.0.0), libmicrohttpd12 (>= 0.9.50), libpq5, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libswscale6 (>= 7:5.0), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser
Recommends: ffmpeg
Suggests: default-mysql-client, postgresql-client
Description: V4L capture program supporting motion detection
Description-md5: 2699ebee3b63a553c62f7f823c1643ca
Homepage: https://motion-project.github.io/
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_4.5.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 508848
MD5sum: fbb7c0dfe6a057eddfdb0f80b393e1c8
SHA256: ccafeb2b14bd1bccda1fcc710d606ae7b9ed08c2926d1ac263668f85c39965fe