Cheese

Cheese is a program to create videos and photos from your webCam.

• It is included in most distros, and should already be installed if you are using the Gnome desktop.
• On an APT-based distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Dreamlinux...), you can just use the Synaptic tool to install it.
• If your distro doesn't include it in its repositories, consider installing it from source.

Installing from source

• Download it from http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/download

• Unpack it using

tar xvzf cheese*.tar.gz

To install it, find out your distribution.

Ubuntu

This has been tested with Ubuntu 9.04 but should also work in any later version.

cd cheese*
./configure && make -j4 && sudo make install

You will probably get a complaint about missing packages, e.g. libebook. In this case start synaptic:

sudo synaptic

And search for libebook. You need the development package, because you want to compile a program that links to it. So, it is not enough to install libebook, but you must also install libebook-dev.

SUSE

This has been tested with SUSE 11.1 and cheese 2.24.3 but should also work on any later version.

• Install libebook (libebook is a child package of evolution)

yast -i evolution-data-server-devel

• build cheese

cd cheese*
./configure && make -j4 && make install

See Also

Video capture