How To Install vidcat on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install w3cam

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install w3cam

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is vidcat and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install vidcat on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install vidcat on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install vidcat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install w3cam

Install vidcat on Fedora 34 using yum

Because vidcat is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install vidcat package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install w3cam

How to upgrade (update) a single package vidcat using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like vidcat in this example you should use the following command:

yum update w3cam

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade w3cam

How to Upgrade vidcat on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update w3cam

How To remove vidcat from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the vidcat package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove w3cam

Extra info and code examples

w3cam is a simple CGI to retrieve images from video4linux device. In other words this program will only run on Linux machines which support a video4linux-device. w3cam supports a plain mode and a gui mode. In the gui mode a html with a form is supplied to change some parameters with the mouse

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install vidcat using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the vidcat from Fedora 34.

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