How To Install cheese on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese on Debian 10.
What is cheese
cheese 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.
There are three methods to install cheese on Debian 10. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cheese
Install cheese Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cheese using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cheese
Install cheese 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cheese using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cheese
How To Uninstall cheese on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cheese package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cheese
Uninstall cheese And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cheese and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cheese
Remove cheese Configurations and Data
To remove cheese configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cheese
Remove cheese configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cheese configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cheese
Dependencies
cheese have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcheese-gtk25
- libcheese8
- libclutter-1.0-0
- libclutter-gtk-1.0-0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-17
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- cheese-common
- gnome-video-effects
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.