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Plug in camera on PC with linux's ubuntu OS

Asked by Meital Albo

I plunged in GPT web camera (USB connection) to my PC, which has Linux's Ubuntu OS.
From some reason i didn't got message about the OS recognizing a new hardware pluged in...
Should I install some drivers for is? and if so can you add to your answer link were i can download the relevant drivers.

Thanks,

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a

If you install and run cheese, do you see yourself?

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Meital Albo (meital-albo) said : 		#2

Hi,

This is the output :
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

I will try now to install "cheese"...

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Meital Albo (meital-albo) said : 		#3

When trying to install "cheese" I got the following ERROR :

"An error occurred

The following details are provided :

W: Failed to fetch http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cheese/libcheese-gtk18_2.32.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  Something wicked happened resolving 'il.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

W: Failed to fetch http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cheese/cheese-common_2.32.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
  Something wicked happened resolving 'il.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

W: Failed to fetch http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cheese/cheese_2.32.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  Something wicked happened resolving 'il.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)"

Is there any other application I can install instead or there is a way to solve this error?

Thanks,

Meital

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Try a different server in Software Centre

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