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Start your webcam in debian with camorama

Written by Mel Kham on August 8, 2009. Posted in Linux tutorials

Camorama is a GNOME 2 Webcam application featuring various image filters, it allows you to view videos from your webcam and apply various image filters to it, and can also upload images via ftp.

This methode was tested under debian 5 and should work under ubuntu too .

Ok, lets start :

1- download needed packges for compilation

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686 module-assistant build-essential gcc-4.1-locales 
gcc-4.1-multilib libmudflap0-dev kernel-package

2-download the comorama packages and de video linux driver gspca

$ sudo aptitude install gspca-source camorama

3-time to compile the source

$ cd /usr/src

 $ sudo tar -jxvf gspca.tar.bz2

 $ cd /usr/src/modules/gspca/

 $ sudo make

4- install

$ sudo make install

5-activate the drivers

$ sudo depmod -a

 $ sudo modprobe gspca

5-start your webcam

Open terminal and type

$ camorama

Please report if you get any problems with ubuntu installation or with debian

Links :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freshmeat_camorama/

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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4 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

nitrofurano

before explain how to install camorama, please explain how to install a webcam, and which webcams are recommended – installing webcams is the most painful experience a Linux user can get.
nitrofurano

guest@p4:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686 module-assistant build-essential gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-multilib libmudflap0-dev kernel-package
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686
guest@p4:~$
pirat9

nitrofurano
try with sudo apt-get install linux-headers
joy

evryting was fine until sudo modprobe gspca but it says no modul gspca found.
thanks.

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