How to Install and Uninstall motion Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "motion" package

Learn how to install motion on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: motion
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ximin Luo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 712
Depends: libavcodec57 (>= 7:3.1.5) | libavcodec-extra57 (>= 7:3.1.5), libavformat57 (>= 7:3.1.5), libavutil55 (>= 7:3.1.5), libc6 (>= 2.15), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libmysqlclient20 (>= 5.7.11), libpq5, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.0), libswscale4 (>= 7:3.1.5), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), adduser
Recommends: ffmpeg
Suggests: default-mysql-client, postgresql-client
Filename: pool/universe/m/motion/motion_4.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 235812
MD5sum: 47adf01df2be025209ec9a17ad5e19d2
SHA1: b68a33744c3dfd94bb3183913da83091dd96670e
SHA256: 43c3d2c379a9cacd62ce0915b034d60433338e434f7acfc518c50c7f0a85c357
Homepage: https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion
Description: V4L capture program supporting motion detection
Description-md5: 2699ebee3b63a553c62f7f823c1643ca