How to install Cheese on Linux

Cheese is an app that allows you to take photos and record videos from a webcam connected to a computer (or built into a laptop) on Linux.

Cheese allows you to apply 8 different effects to videos and photos. It's also possible to export to Flickr, use the photo as an account image. It's a simple and easy-to-use application that can be installed on any Linux distro.

Pictures:

• Output Image Format: JPEG

Video:

• Video codec: Theora
• Output Video format: OGV
• FPS: 30

Install Cheese on Linux

To install Cheese on Linux, you only need to enter one command, as Cheese is available in almost all repositories:

Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Linux:

sudo apt-get install cheese

Fedora, CentOS:

sudo dnf install cheese

openSuse:

sudo zypper install cheese

ArchLinux or Manjaro:

sudo pacman -S cheese

Gentoo:

sudo emerge -a media-video/cheese

Cheese settings

Some users are having trouble accessing the settings for this app.

To open the Cheese settings, you have to click on the 3-dot menu in the upper right corner, and then click on the Preferences item in the drop-down menu.

Cheese saves all your photos in the following directory: /home/user/Pictures/Webcam/, videos: /home/user/Videos/Webcam/