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

tar xvzf cheese*.tar.gz
 * Unpack it using

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. yast -i evolution-data-server-devel cd cheese* ./configure && make -j4 && make install
 * Install libebook (libebook is a child package of evolution)
 * build cheese