How To Install fswebcam on CentOS 8

fswebcam is Tiny and flexible webcam program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam on CentOS 8.

What is fswebcam

A tiny and flexible webcam program for capturing images from a V4L1/V4L2 device, and overlaying a caption or image.

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

Install fswebcam on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install fswebcam

Install fswebcam on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install fswebcam

How To Uninstall fswebcam on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove fswebcam

fswebcam Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fswebcam
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/3fe0fb57a2a4a82a117126e6e67a36ead53145
/usr/share/doc/fswebcam
/usr/share/doc/fswebcam/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/fswebcam/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fswebcam/README
/usr/share/doc/fswebcam/example.conf
/usr/share/man/man1/fswebcam.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.