Guvcview functions perfectly without uvcdynctrl. uvcdynctrl just adds some exotic uvc ctrls for older logitech cameras, like a led ctrl. The recommend can be droped without any problem.
Regards. A quarta, 8/12/2021, 04:12, Kurt Meyer <yahweh19...@hailmail.net> escreveu: > "Guvcview doesn't depend upon uvcdynctrl it just recommends it." Okay, but > unless you disable "recommends", uvcdynctrl gets installed. Based on a > little bit of research I performed, it is not recommended to disable > "recommends" because recommended packages are usually needed for a more > useful installation. > > Source of info for not disabling "recommends": > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122289/why-install-recommends-default-is-true > > Does guvcview function or function well enough without uvcdynctrl? > > *The following additional packages will be installed:* > * libguvcview-2.0-2 libportaudio2 libwebcam0 uvcdynctrl uvcdynctrl-data* > *The following NEW packages will be installed:* > * guvcview libguvcview-2.0-2 libportaudio2 libwebcam0 uvcdynctrl > uvcdynctrl-data* > *0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.* > *Need to get 266 kB/386 kB of archives.* > *After this operation, 1,437 kB of additional disk space will be used.* > >