Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.0

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Cheese-3.22.1

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-8.0 platform.

Package Information

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-3.0.22, clutter-gtk-1.8.2, gnome-desktop-3.22.2, gnome-video-effects-0.4.3, gst-plugins-bad-1.10.3, gst-plugins-good-1.10.3 (built with v4l-utils-1.12.3), itstool-2.0.2, libcanberra-0.30, libgudev-231, and librsvg-2.40.16

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.50.0 and Vala-0.34.4

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.25, 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 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 a webcam tool with graphical effects.

libcheese.so

contains the Cheese API functions.

libcheese-gtk.so

contains the Cheese GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2017-02-20 15:27:17 -0800