How to install / uninstall cheese on Ubuntu 16.04 ?
1. Install cheese
Installing cheese package on Ubuntu 16.04 is as easy as running the following command on terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cheese
[setupvars.sh] OpenVINO environment initialized
strong@foreverstrong:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for strong:
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Reading package lists... Done
strong@foreverstrong:~$
strong@foreverstrong:~$ sudo apt-get install cheese
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
cheese is already the newest version (3.18.1-2ubuntu3).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libllvm4.0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 180 not upgraded.
strong@foreverstrong:~$
2. Uninstall cheese
To remove just cheese package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 execute on terminal:
sudo apt-get remove cheese
3. Uninstall cheese and it’s dependent packages
To remove the cheese package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu 16.04.
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove cheese
4. Purging cheese
If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of cheese from Ubuntu 16.04 then this will work:
sudo apt-get purge cheese
To delete configuration and/or data files of cheese and it’s dependencies from Ubuntu 16.04 then execute:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cheese
To capture video streams you can use cheese, a nice program with a graphical user interface. It allows you to watch and record your camera output at the same time. It stores in a strange format (.webm), but vlc can play this.
5. cheese
5.1 Photo -> Take a photo using a webcam
5.2 Video -> Record a video using a webcam
5.3 Burst -> Take multiple photos using a webcam
References
https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/
https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/
https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/xenial/