How To Install fswebcam on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam on Kali Linux.

What is fswebcam

fswebcam is:

Fswebcam is a tiny and flexible webcam command-line program for capturing images from a V4L1/V4L2 device. It accepts a number of formats, can skip the first (possibly bad) frames before performing the actual capture, and can perform simple manipulation on the captured image, such as resizing, averaging multiple frames or overlaying a caption or an image.

There are three methods to install fswebcam 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 fswebcam Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fswebcam using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fswebcam

Install fswebcam Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fswebcam using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fswebcam

Install fswebcam Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux 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 fswebcam using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fswebcam

How To Uninstall fswebcam on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fswebcam

Uninstall fswebcam And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fswebcam and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fswebcam

Remove fswebcam Configurations and Data

To remove fswebcam configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fswebcam

Remove fswebcam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fswebcam configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fswebcam

Dependencies

fswebcam have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgd3

References

• fswebcam website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswebcam package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.