Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.7

Chapter 31. GNOME Applications

Cheese-3.14.2

Introduction to Cheese

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

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.7 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-2.0.14, clutter-gtk-1.6.0, gnome-desktop-3.14.2, gnome-video-effects-0.4.1, gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5, gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 (built with v4l-utils-1.6.2), Itstool-2.0.2, libcanberra-0.30, librsvg-2.40.7, and udev-extras (from eudev) (for GUdev)

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.42.0 and Vala-0.26.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.21 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

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: cheese
Installed Library: libcheese.so and libcheese-gtk.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/cheese, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/cheese, and /usr/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 2015-03-04 14:39:39 -0800