How To Install cheese on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

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

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.

There are three methods to install cheese on Ubuntu. 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

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, 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 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

Dependencies

cheese have the following dependencies:

References

cheese website

Summary

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