Install Ubiquiti UniFi Video 3.x on Debian 7

Make sure your system is up to date

apt-get update

Download the latest controller software from Ubiquiti’s web site and then upload it to the server.  You can also use wget.

wget http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/firmwares/unifi-video/3.1.2/unifi-video_3.1.2-Debian7_amd64.deb

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen

Install MongoDB and java

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
apt-get update
apt-get install mongodb-gen10 openjdk-7-jre-headless

Install the UniFi Video package.

dpkg -i unifi-video_3.1.2-Debian7_amd64.deb

Check that it is running.

service unifi-video status

Finally log into it from the web.

https://ipaddress:7443

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