How To Install webcamd on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install webcamd on Debian 12.
What is webcamd
webcamd is:
webcamd take images from your webcam and put it in your local web directory or upload it by FTP.
What it does:
- Take pics every X seconds.
- Add date & hour on pictures, with or without a border.
- Make HTML page for it.
- Stop camera, putting an offline webpage.
- To take pics when you want if the daemon is running.
- Upload pics by ftp on a remote server or create local file if a local web server is running.
- Customise HTML templates easily.
You can configure the program easily with a small and simple configuration file.
There are three methods to install webcamd on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install webcamd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install webcamd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install webcamd
Install webcamd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install webcamd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install webcamd
Install webcamd 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 webcamd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install webcamd
How To Uninstall webcamd on Debian 12
To uninstall only the webcamd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove webcamd
Uninstall webcamd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall webcamd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove webcamd
Remove webcamd Configurations and Data
To remove webcamd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge webcamd
Remove webcamd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove webcamd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge webcamd
Dependencies
webcamd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install webcamd package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.