On Wed 2017-12-13 21:48:16 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >> ** (cheese:25393): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for >> /home/dkg/Pictures/Webcam/2017-12-13-205800.jpg (image/jpeg) > > Do you have libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin installed? It is a recommends of > libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0.
nope, i did not have that installed. installing it resolves the problem. I had no idea how to find that this was the necessary component. I did look into whether i had the relevant Recommends: for cheese itself, but i didn't do (and don't know how to easily do) a recursive search for all dependency Recommends :/ Even if i'd managed to come up with such a list, i'm not sure i would have been able to identify libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin as the needed package :( thanks for pointing me in the right direction! You can feel free to dispose of this ticket however you like. If there's a way that you can make it easier to find this instead of filing a new bug, that'd be great! --dkg