cheese software package provides tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cheese
cheese is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cheese package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cheese *
You will get with cheese package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | cheese |
| Version | 3.14.1-2 |
| Description | tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam |
| Sub Section | GNOME |