How To Install fswebcam on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam on CentOS 8.
What is fswebcam
A tiny and flexible webcam program for capturing images from a V4L1/V4L2 device, and overlaying a caption or image.
We can use yum or dnf to install fswebcam on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fswebcam.
Install fswebcam on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fswebcam using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fswebcam
Install fswebcam on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fswebcam using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fswebcam
How To Uninstall fswebcam on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fswebcam package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fswebcam
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.