Sunday, January 3, 2010

How to save Photos and Video from Webcam in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Cheese


Cheese is a very good Utility  for the GNOME Desktop which used for  take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.
Just start it up and shoot! Gather all of your friends around, have some fun! Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. It also allows you to take videos. Effects, sharing.


How to install in Ubuntu

open a terminal

$sudo apt-get install cheese  ( or use synaptic package Manager)


Deb Package is available here

2 comments:

compizspec said...

i am using 8.10
i got the following error msg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package cheese
what are the additional repositories in 9.10

Anonymous said...

it works like charm, super !!!! ^^