How to Install and Uninstall motion Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "motion" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install motion on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Learn how to uninstall motion on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                motion
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the motion package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: motion
Version: 4.3.2-1
Installed-Size: 2213
Maintainer: Ximin Luo
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2), libavdevice58 (>= 7:4.0), libavformat58 (>= 7:4.2), libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0), libc6 (>= 2.15), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libmariadb3 (>= 3.0.0), libmicrohttpd12 (>= 0.9.50), libpq5, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.0), libswscale5 (>= 7:4.0), 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_4.3.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 509520
MD5sum: 260cb2be3b63bbadf0667dc218cf814b
SHA256: 801c3bd0b96b1d1527d88b28952a87bda22558965ca761a345e2f86505689d26