HowTo: 'Cheese' (App like PhotoBooth)

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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.