How to Install and Uninstall motion Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "motion" package

This guide let you learn how to install motion on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall motion on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: motion
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 814
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ximin Luo
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.2.12+git20140228-8build1
Depends: libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4) | libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 (>= 7:2.4), libavfilter-ffmpeg5 (>= 7:2.4), libavformat-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4), libavutil-ffmpeg54 (>= 7:2.4), libc6 (>= 2.15), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libmysqlclient20 (>= 5.7.11), libpq5, libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser
Recommends: ffmpeg
Suggests: mysql-client, postgresql-client
Filename: pool/universe/m/motion/motion_3.2.12+git20140228-8build1_amd64.deb
Size: 237942
MD5sum: 6c4a00570828544ed4eaa10100f261b4
SHA1: 6624c56566adf7ec1d92c20e76e17e45a2948fa6
SHA256: 0a19a6790162707a936b0b9dafe36d361e175e9c1901270f1faef8491234f5e0
Description-en: V4L capture program supporting motion detection
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.
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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.
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The output from motion can be:
- jpg/ppm image files
- mpeg/mp4/swf/flv/mov/ogg video sequences
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Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus,
you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.
Description-md5: 2699ebee3b63a553c62f7f823c1643ca
Homepage: http://motion.sf.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu