HowTo: 'Cheese' (App like PhotoBooth)

[cyberdork33]

NOTE: Cheese will be included with gnome 2.22 and will follow the gnome release schedule. The current release (2.21.5) requires gstreamer 0.10.15 and the version of gsteamer in the repos is 0.10.14, thus the latest release will not compile unless you first get a newer version of gstreamer. You can check your version of gstreamer with

pkg-config --modversion gstreamer-0.10

Cheese is available in the Universe repository for Gutsy Gibbon.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/gnome/cheese

Alternative Ubuntu deb Packages are available at:
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Cheese



This involves compiling, but don't leave. It's easy!

First get your iSight working
Before running the application, make sure you have your iSight working as instructed at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=491381

Get the latest source release
Go here and get the latest package:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/

Open a terminal and navigate to the location where you downloaded the archive.
Now extract the source code:

$ tar -xzvf cheese*.tar.gz

$ cd cheese*

Now the compiling
Requirements according to website (http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/):

• glib-2.0 >= 2.12.1
• gobject-2.0
• gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
• libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
• gdk-2.0
• dbus-1
• hal
• cairo
• gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.15
• gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.15
• gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10 >= 0.10.15
• gnome-vfs-2.0
• libgnomeui-2.0
• xf86vidmodeproto
• libebook-1.2 (evolution-data-server)
• postr for Flickr export (optional)
• f-spot for F-Spot export (optional)
• a webcam (a v4l2-webcam is highly recommended)
• a brain

Here are all the packages I installed, some may not be required, and more may be required to use all features. I am using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

$ sudo aptitude install build-essential libglib2.0-dev python-gobject-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev libdbus-1-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-good libpango1.0-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libcairo2-dev libgnomeui-dev libebook1.2-dev libxxf86vm-dev

First we need to configure the build environment:

$ ./configure

Now we can build the binary:

$ make

Finally, install:

$ sudo make install

Running the app
Cheese should appear in Applications > Accessories > cheese

Corrections / Change Suggestions are welcome.

[ronocdh]

Now this is a freaking how-to! STICKY!

[xfile087]

Incredible. I found out about this app the earlier in the week but couldn't install it nor could I find out how-to anywhere - i'm a bit of n00b really - so anyway I gave up.

Now I see your thread and WOW I got it working! Well done on making this how-to!!!

[André Schnabel]

Awesome app with nice effects. Some interface improvements like dragging photos would be nice, but except for that it's great. Oh and I like the fact, that it's written using GTK+, so it perfectly integrates in my Gnome environment.

[cyberdork33]

This app is still very early in development. (It was started April 2007). If you have feature suggestions or want to contribute (he needs translations I am sure) then you can go to the Cheese website: http://live.gnome.org/Cheese

He has contact information there, as well as planned additions (video support!)

[ivesjd]

haha, with a fresh Ubuntu Install it works! yay!

[JordiMac]

http://live.gnome.org/Cheese

WARNING: in version 0.1.2, Cheese isn't shown in your task list (<alt>-<tab> and the taskbar). To fix that behavior, simply set the line <property name="skip_taskbar_hint">True</property> to <property name="skip_taskbar_hint">False</property> in data/cheese.glade (line 11). This is already fixed in the repository WARNING: Cheese doesn't support V4L at the moment. The reason for this is unknown, if anybody has a hint for me (as i don't own a V4L-Device), drop a line!

http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/Releases

Requirements

Requirements:

glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0

gobject-2.0
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0

libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0

gdk-2.0
dbus-1
gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.12

gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.12

gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10 >= 0.10.12

gnome-vfs-2.0
cairo
a webcam
a brain

I cannot install it, single as root works and in terminal

[cyberdork33]

Thanks for the update notification! The Icon looks nice.

[ivesjd]

Just downloaded the latest release (July 1st, 2007)

* ./configure
* make
* sudo make install

and thats it. Well other then setting gstreamer-properties to the iSight.

[cyberdork33]

Originally Posted by ivesjd Just downloaded the latest release (July 1st, 2007) * ./configure * make * sudo make install and thats it. Well other then setting gstreamer-properties to the iSight.

YAY... ok modifying OP

EDIT: Is anyone else getting a really slow response with the video? Like the window's video lags? It looks fine in ekiga and the gstreamer test...