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I've installed the program Motion on one Linux machine (M1) and want the same program on another (M2).

There are various builds of this program, and I have forgotten which one I have used, so can I do a straight copy of the user/bin/motion file from M1 and place it in the user/bin/motion of M2?

I know where the configuration file is, so I'll move that across, but I'm not sure on what video drivers the working version of motion uses on M2; is there any way of finding out?

Is there a way that I can find out its dependencies?

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For moving one program to other computer you have to move:

1) Executable file
A simple way to finding commands path is type command.

For example: type cal

cal is /usr/bin/cal

2) Library dependencies
You can find library dependencies with ldd command, But remember if you compiled a program from source the CPU Architecture of both server must be the same.

For example: ldd date

linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff83dff000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x0000003784e00000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003783e00000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003784200000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003783a00000)

3) Configuration files
In new server you may need to tell the program to re-create the configuration files because that configuration files belongs to previous server.

4) Checking hardware dependency
For checking this I think you have to check program's website for supporting hardwares or you have to test program in new environment.

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How do I find where the executable is stored? I think its in user/bin/ called motion. It runs at machine boot, so could this give me any clues as to where the executable is stored? –  reggie 9 hours ago
    
@reggie, type command is a simple way.. I edited my post. –  Sepahrad Salour 9 hours ago

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