How to install Kazam 1.5.3?

Question

Months ago, I used to install Kazam 1.5.3 using these commands :

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kazam python3-cairo python3-xlib

Them main reason I want Kazam 1.5.3 exactly is because it comes with a webcam option.

But now, when I execute the previous commands, it only installs the previous version (Kazam 1.4), which doesn't come with a webcam option.

Is there a way to get the latest version?

Thanks

Sylvain Pineau · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-24T15:29:57.117

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Kazam is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but it's an old version (1.4) and ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series has not been updated for 16.04 (and does not include debian patches).

You can install Kazam 1.5.4 from my own ppa (it provides the debian packages up to 21.04):

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sylvain-pineau/kazam
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kazam

edited May 24 '21 at 15:29

answered Jun 21 '16 at 15:43

Sylvain Pineau

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webcam is just black :( – Felipe Jun 29 '16 at 15:17
Thanks @sylvain for your answer. I'm on Ubuntu 16.10 LTS and these commands do not work for me. Any thoughts. Thanks – MYaseen208 Oct 19 '16 at 07:03
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@MYaseen208 I've updated the ppa, the new packages are available for Y and Z. – Sylvain Pineau Oct 19 '16 at 07:57
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Thanks @SylvainPineau for your help. Now it works like a charm. Thanks again. – MYaseen208 Oct 19 '16 at 08:22
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webcam is black for me as well. @FelipeMicaroniLalli did u solve this? – goldylucks Aug 18 '17 at 05:07
Just uploaded a new version for 20.04. The old ppa copy that I did never really worked. Please install kazam (1.5.4-0ubuntu6) from the same ppa – Sylvain Pineau Jan 15 '21 at 14:00
@sylvain anything for 20.10 ? – akikara May 23 '21 at 10:34
Thanks Sylvain but it looks like there is a dependency not listed in the package causing some issues, FYI https://askubuntu.com/a/1207425/300877 – Jeff Trull May 23 '21 at 23:57
Thanks for the notification, fixed via kazam - 1.5.4-0ubuntu7 (20.04) – Sylvain Pineau May 24 '21 at 15:25
@akikara I've copied the 20.04 ppa version up to Impish – Sylvain Pineau May 24 '21 at 15:28
Great news @SylvainPineau any progress for 20.10? Already checked. Nice work! – akikara Jun 01 '21 at 15:45

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 04 '16 at 11:32

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cd to /etc/apt/sources.d/ open up the kazam.list file and make sure you change repo to devel.

/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls
kazam-team-ubuntu-unstable-series-xenial.list  kazam-team-ubuntu-unstable-   series-xenial.list.save

/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat kazam-team-ubuntu-unstable-series-xenial.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kazam-team/unstable-series/ubuntu devel main

edited Jun 04 '16 at 11:32

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answered Jun 04 '16 at 10:37

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Googlian · Answer 3 · 2022-11-05T15:40:15.847

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Install using PIP/PIP3

pip install kazam==1.5.6 distutils-extra-python

These versions are available and has same features as 1.5.3

edited Nov 05 '22 at 15:40

answered Nov 04 '22 at 08:47

Googlian

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Question was how to install 1.5.3 how is this an answer to that? Add some more details it may make sense then. – David Nov 05 '22 at 08:53
WARNING Kazam - Failed to correctly detect operating system on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS + 6.2.9-060209-generic – Witold Kaczurba Apr 04 '23 at 17:09

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