How To Install libcheese8 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcheese8
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcheese8
libcheese8 is:
A webcam application that supports image and video capture. Makes it easy to take photos and videos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want. Allows you to apply fancy visual effects, fine-control image settings and has features such as Multi-Burst mode, Countdown timer for photos.
This package contains the base shared library. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libcheese8 Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.34.0-1build1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: cheese Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 121 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.16), libclutter-gst-3.0-0 (>= 3.0.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.90), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.4.0), cheese-common (>= 3.34.0-1build1), gstreamer1.0-plugins-base (>= 0.11.0), gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (>= 0.11.0), gstreamer1.0-x Filename: pool/main/c/cheese/libcheese8_3.34.0-1build1_amd64.deb Size: 33256 MD5sum: e4977364d578f4534e0e0b2cfb328714 SHA1: fc4d4da8759142896a9a3593f337ecf18a715a24 SHA256: bc3116a221b3ffda5929bd9e0eff2c1447e81a1d04df1318ce73982f163a42ba Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese Description-en: tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library A webcam application that supports image and video capture. Makes it easy to take photos and videos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want. Allows you to apply fancy visual effects, fine-control image settings and has features such as Multi-Burst mode, Countdown timer for photos.
This package contains the base shared library. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libcheese8
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcheese8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcheese8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcheese8
Install libcheese8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcheese8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcheese8
Install libcheese8 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcheese8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcheese8
How To Uninstall libcheese8 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcheese8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcheese8
Uninstall libcheese8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcheese8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcheese8
Remove libcheese8 Configurations and Data
To remove libcheese8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcheese8
Remove libcheese8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcheese8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcheese8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcheese8
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.