How To Install ucview on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucview on Fedora 34.

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. ucview 0.33 20.fc34 x86_64 131 k ucview-0.33-20.fc34.src.rpm fedora Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit https GPLv2+ 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ucview.

Install ucview on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ucview

ucview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/gconf/schemas/ucview.schemas
/usr/bin/ucview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/5e5495ad1f9125847051f91bf1393063493292
/usr/lib/ucview
/usr/lib/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
/etc/gconf/schemas/ucview.schemas
/usr/bin/ucview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/300ae81d6340e79bc8d295cb460923fa548386
/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](https://www.unicap-imaging.org/ https://www.unicap-imaging.org/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucview on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.