Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 10.0

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Cheese-3.34.0

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-10.0 platform.

Package Information

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-3.0.27, clutter-gtk-1.8.4, gnome-desktop-3.36.5, gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2, gst-plugins-good-1.16.2 (built with v4l-utils-1.20.0), libcanberra-0.30, and libgudev-233

Recommended

gnome-video-effects-0.5.0 (at runtime, for video effects), gobject-introspection-1.64.1 and Vala-0.48.9

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.32, libxslt-1.1.34, appstream-glib, LCOV , 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 Adapters  --->         [CONFIG_MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT]
              Select device(s) as needed

Installation of Cheese

First, fix a problem generating the man page: 

sed -i "s/&version;/3.34.0/" docs/reference/cheese{,-docs}.xml

Install Cheese by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr -Dgtk_doc=false .. &&
ninja

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja 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 a webcam tool with graphical effects.

libcheese.so

contains the Cheese API functions.

libcheese-gtk.so

contains the Cheese GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2020-08-20 13:45:48 -0700