Comment 3 for bug 243934

I can confirm that this bug also exists in 8.10 beta.

Any help would be great or we should think about removing the package as it doesnt appear to have worked for a while now.

root@security:~# apt-get install zoneminder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
zoneminder is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcamel1.2-13 openssh-blacklist
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up zoneminder (1.23.3-3) ...
Upgrading from version 1.22.3-10 to 1.23.2
DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','zmuser',...) failed: Unknown database 'zm' at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 89
Can't call method "prepare_cached" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 91.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 100.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl line 49.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl line 49.
dpkg: error processing zoneminder (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zoneminder
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)