How To Install ucview on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucview on Rocky Linux 8. ucview is Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit

Introduction

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

What is ucview

UCView is a video image capture application using the unicap toolkit. It provides a simple way to parametrise the video device, can capture still images from the video stream or record the stream as mpeg file. By using unicap, it can access many different video capture devices like webcams, video grabber boards, IEEE-1394 (FireWire) cameras and others.

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

Install ucview 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 ucview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ucview

Install ucview 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 ucview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ucview

How To Uninstall ucview on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ucview

ucview Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/gconf/schemas/ucview.schemas
/usr/bin/ucview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/b1aaa4c228f854d6d53bca5e0c6ba114393236
/usr/lib64/ucview
/usr/lib64/ucview/plugins
/usr/share/applications/ucview.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ucview
/usr/share/doc/ucview/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ucview/ChangeLog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ucview.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ucview.png
/usr/share/licenses/ucview
/usr/share/licenses/ucview/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ucview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ucview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ucview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ucview.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/ucview.1.gz
/usr/share/ucview
/usr/share/ucview/icons
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-device-settings.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-pause.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-play-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-preferences.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-record-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/asus/41x41/ucview-save-still-image.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/16x16
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/16x16/ucview-device-settings.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/16x16/ucview-play-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/16x16/ucview-record-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/16x16/ucview-save-still-image.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/24x24
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/24x24/ucview-device-settings.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/24x24/ucview-play-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/24x24/ucview-record-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/24x24/ucview-save-still-image.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/32x32
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/32x32/ucview-device-settings.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/32x32/ucview-play-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/32x32/ucview-record-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/32x32/ucview-save-still-image.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/48x48
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/48x48/ucview-device-settings.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/48x48/ucview-play-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/48x48/ucview-record-video.png
/usr/share/ucview/icons/hicolor/48x48/ucview-save-still-image.png
/usr/share/ucview/logo
/usr/share/ucview/logo/ucview-logo.png
/usr/share/ucview/ucview.glade

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Summary

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