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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Webcam on xfce? Post 302218955 by Chesh on Sunday 27th of July 2008 07:47:35 PM

07-27-2008

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Webcam on xfce?

Hey guys. I'm about as new to Linux as you can get, so bear with me please.

I installed Xubuntu on my old laptop to tinker with.. figured it would be a good use of an old machine. One thing I'd like to set up is some security with a webcam. Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 to be exact. I went about trying to get wxCam set up and run into some problems. I unpacked the tar.gz and cd-ed to the new directory. Typed "./configure; make" like instructed here and got this in return:

Quote:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

It looks like to me either the compiler that came with xfce is crap or I need to install one. Please make any helpful instructions as idiot proof as possible. Thanks in advance. Smilie

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NAME

       xfce4-power-manager - The Xfce 4 Power manager

SYNOPSIS

       xfce4-power-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       xfce4-power-manager  manages  the  power  sources  on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption
       (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep, CPU frequency scaling). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set  of  freedesktop-com-
       pliant  DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it pro-
       vides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the  operat-
       ing system's package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.
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OPTIONS

       --no-daemon
	      Starts the power manager in non-daemon mode: useful for debugging.

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       --customize
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       --quit Causes any running instance of xfce4-power-manager to exit.

BUGS

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