How To Install cheese-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cheese-common
cheese-common is:
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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: cheese-common Architecture: all Version: 3.34.0-1build1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: gnome Source: cheese Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 868 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Filename: pool/main/c/cheese/cheese-common_3.34.0-1build1_all.deb Size: 390184 MD5sum: 1883fa4dde41a6691b855a37ab78e55d SHA1: d3c22edafa1db16ac33b9ee821c08e76225721d1 SHA256: a4f2c68ff50037d506cf200222316d43e691a3813222717bad49af7ced9450a8 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese Description-en: Common files for the Cheese tool to take pictures and videos 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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install cheese-common on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
