How To Install ucview on CentOS 8

ucview is Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucview on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ucview.

Install ucview 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 ucview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ucview

Install ucview 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 ucview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ucview

How To Uninstall ucview on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ucview

ucview Package Contents on CentOS 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

References

ucview website

Summary

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