How to Install and Uninstall webcamd Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "webcamd" package

Learn how to install webcamd on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: webcamd
Architecture: all
Version: 0.7.6+repack0-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 41
Depends: libimage-magick-perl, perl, xawtv, libnet-perl
Filename: pool/universe/w/webcamd/webcamd_0.7.6+repack0-1_all.deb
Size: 12340
MD5sum: 20e03551eaff172f5e1b198f658fe507
SHA1: 5ae054f669bb49c3a10faf583f1975f0a9c50917
SHA256: 455a11474953e5e11b166d86fe6423f187b226c50b6c241a0205e1c267b6e05d
SHA512: e8a22ab68a845b4c5aef5a63125508aed0cfdfc9805e0f0e048004fa5bce1a9538357febdf109bed5dd6e19ff74946600cb296182a9b715c3e3b64246a6e3ccb
Homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20031216024525/http://webcamd.tuxfamily.org/index_en.html
Description-en: 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: 0f10a0fa6d6ad060e4dc315a755546db