How to Install and Uninstall webcamd Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "webcamd" package

This guide let you learn how to install webcamd on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                webcamd
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "webcamd" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall webcamd on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                webcamd
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the webcamd package on Kali Linux

Package: webcamd
Version: 0.7.6+repack0-2
Installed-Size: 41
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Depends: libimage-magick-perl, perl, xawtv, libnet-perl
Size: 12400
SHA256: f527a6a89e62a64318667a08e1465742919b3ba517dafdefe41fbc07a1d3f6f5
SHA1: 0f9b99bb05192f77ed8a22a6e205f7953f87924b
MD5sum: 5578d65b26a375fd1208c0f2c4ea1d29
Description: Capture images from video devices
webcamd take images from your webcam and put it in your local web directory
or upload it by FTP.
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What it does:
- Take pics every X seconds.
- Add date & hour on pictures, with or without a border.
- Make HTML page for it.
- Stop camera, putting an offline webpage.
- To take pics when you want if the daemon is running.
- Upload pics by ftp on a remote server or create local file if a local web
server is running.
- Customise HTML templates easily.
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You can configure the program easily with a small and simple configuration
file.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20031216024525/http://webcamd.tuxfamily.org/index_en.html
Tag: hardware::camera, interface::daemon, network::server, protocol::ftp,
role::program
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/webcamd/webcamd_0.7.6+repack0-2_all.deb