How To Install cheese on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: cheese Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.34.0-1build1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 446 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcheese-gtk25 (>= 3.18.0), libcheese8 (>= 3.18.0), libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.16), libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.90), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), cheese-common (>= 3.34.0-1build1), gnome-video-effects Recommends: gvfs, yelp Suggests: gnome-video-effects-frei0r Filename: pool/main/c/cheese/cheese_3.34.0-1build1_amd64.deb Size: 138784 MD5sum: 6a458a6c4de1cfaea7913bbfd483c2b8 SHA1: cb0dea3036918592721d30c3dab7b23335c3e327 SHA256: 630d71e572284fa59d58a767e3dcfd465e1d51ace9cdda4bf161bd82ef6384c0 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese Description-en: tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam 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. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install cheese 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cheese
Remove cheese Configurations and Data
To remove cheese configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
