How To Install cheese-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common on Kali Linux.
What is cheese-common
A webcam application that supports image and video capture. Makes it easy to take photos and videos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want. Allows you to apply fancy visual effects, fine-control image settings and has features such as Multi-Burst mode, Countdown timer for photos.
This package contains the common files and translations.
There are three ways to install cheese-common on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cheese-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cheese-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cheese-common
Install cheese-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cheese-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cheese-common
Install cheese-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cheese-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cheese-common
How To Uninstall cheese-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cheese-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cheese-common
Uninstall cheese-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cheese-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cheese-common
Remove cheese-common Configurations and Data
To remove cheese-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cheese-common
Remove cheese-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cheese-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cheese-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.