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title: Install Cheese on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Cheese for on CentOS - Take photos and videos
  with your webcam, with fun graphical effects
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/cheese/centos
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# Install Cheese on **CentOS**

# Cheese

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/ken-vandine "View all snaps from Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)")

* [Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/ken-vandine "View all snaps from Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)")
* [Photo and Video](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=photo-and-video)

[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/cheese/centos#install)

#### Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy
special effects and lets you share the fun with others.

Take multiple photos in quick succession with burst mode.
Use the countdown to give yourself time to strike a pose, and wait for the
flash!

Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to
photos and videos.
With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or
whatever you want and share them with others.

### Package name

* cheese

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### License

* GPL-2.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 25 September 2026 - latest/stable
* 11 March 2026 - latest/candidate

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/cheese/centos#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on CentOS and install Cheese

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [CentOS 7.6+](https://snapcraft.io/install/cheese/centos), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:

```
sudo yum install epel-release
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Cheese

To install Cheese, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install cheese
```

### Other popular snaps…

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### More things to do…

#### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store)

Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.

#### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs)

Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/) now.

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