How To Install cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cheese.x86_64 is Application for taking pictures and movies from a webcam

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cheese.x86_64`

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 to install cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cheese.x86_64.

Install cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cheese.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cheese.x86_64

How To Uninstall cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cheese.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cheese.x86_64

cheese.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cheese
/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-3.28.0
/usr/share/doc/cheese-3.28.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cheese-3.28.0/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

References

cheese.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.