How to Install libcheese8 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

How to Install libcheese8 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

libcheese8 software package provides tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libcheese8 

libcheese8 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the libcheese8 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libcheese8 *

You will get with libcheese8 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

libcheese8 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak
Section Libraries
Package libcheese8
Version 3.22.0-1ubuntu1
Description tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library
Sub Section libs


See Also, How to uninstall or remove libcheese8 software package from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?