Cannot get motion 5.0 working

[andrewfrongello]

Hi all, wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I followed the directions per the motion build guide to create and install from a custom deb package.

1. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Motion-Project/motion-packaging/master/builddeb.sh
2. reviewing the script, I added 2>/dev/null on lines 32, 33, and 35 to suppress error output on my system that does not have LSB modules installed.
3. everything else looks good so chmod +x and ran script
4. installed the resulting deb package using sudo gdebi {deb package name}

Great, it looks like it completed successfully and the following notes are displayed from the script output:

Adding group 'motion' (GID 123) ...
Adding system user 'motion' (UID 111) ...
Adding new user 'motion' (UID 111) with group 'motion' ...
Not creating home directory '/var/lib/motion'.
Adding user `motion' to group 'video' ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/motion.service → /lib/systemd/system/motion.service.

This is where I am getting lost, and I'm a little confused as to which guide I need to be following. I've been playing around with the configs a bit but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it working. Any help is appreciated.