How To Install cheese-common on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common on Ubuntu 22.04. cheese-common is Common files for the Cheese tool to take pictures and videos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cheese-common

cheese-common 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.

This package contains the common files and translations.

There are three methods to install cheese-common on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cheese-common

Install cheese-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cheese-common

Install cheese-common 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-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cheese-common

How To Uninstall cheese-common on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the cheese-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cheese-common

Uninstall cheese-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cheese-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cheese-common

Remove cheese-common Configurations and Data

To remove cheese-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cheese-common

Remove cheese-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cheese-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cheese-common package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.