How To Install cheese on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese on Rocky Linux 8. cheese is Application for taking pictures and movies from a webcam

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cheese

Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It can also apply fancy graphical effects.

We can use yum or dnf to install cheese on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cheese.

Install cheese on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cheese using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cheese

Install cheese on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cheese using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cheese

How To Uninstall cheese on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cheese package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cheese

cheese Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/cheese
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/e56dc8ce7320825697cf3f9f958de15d42fce1
/usr/share/appdata/org.gnome.Cheese.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Cheese.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Cheese.service
/usr/share/doc/cheese
/usr/share/doc/cheese/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cheese/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.gnome.Cheese.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.Cheese-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/cheese.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.