Cheese-3.18.1

Introduction to Cheese

Cheese is used to take photos and videos with fun graphical effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.

Package Information

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-3.0.16, clutter-gtk-1.6.6, gnome-desktop-3.18.2, gnome-video-effects-0.4.1, gst-plugins-bad-1.6.3, gst-plugins-good-1.6.3 (built with v4l-utils-1.10.0), Itstool-2.0.2, libcanberra-0.30, libgudev-230, and librsvg-2.40.13

Recommended

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Nautilus SendTo

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cheese

Kernel Configuration

Depending on your camera, enable the appropriate options and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Multimedia support --->
    <*> Cameras/video grabbers support  [CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT]
    <*> Media USB Adapter  --->         [CONFIG_MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT]
              Select device(s) as needed

Installation of Cheese

Install Cheese by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Program: cheese
Installed Library: libcheese.so and libcheese-gtk.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/gtk-doc/html,share/help/*}/cheese

Short Descriptions

cheese

is the webcam tool with graphical effects.

libcheese.so

contains the Cheese API functions.

libcheese-gtk.so

contains the Cheese GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2016-03-02 20:46:04 -0800