How to install vokoscreen on Debian 8.3

How to install vokoscreen on Debian 8.3

The Vokoscreen is an easy to use screencast creator to record educational videos, live recordings of browser, installation, videoconferences, etc. It is a minimalistic GUI and uses FFMPEG. This tutorial will explain on how to install vokoscreen on Debian 8.3.

Installation procedure

To begin with the installation, use the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The sources.list file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next execute the apt-get update command to update the apt sources-list in the target system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]                                 
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease                                                 
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                  
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                                    
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]                             
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]                             
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]            
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]                      
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]                      
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]            
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                      
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]       
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
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Fetched 23.5 MB in 5min 39s (69.2 kB/s)                                                       
Reading package lists... Done

The changes made in the configuration file is updated in the target system. Install the vokoscreen package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install vokoscreen
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fonts-freefont-ttf libav-tools libavdevice55 libavfilter5 libbasicusageenvironment0
  libboost-filesystem1.55.0 libboost-regex1.55.0 libcddb2 libcrystalhd3 libdc1394-utils
  libdvbpsi9 libebml4 libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libgroupsock1 libiso9660-8 liblivemedia23
  libmatroska6 libpostproc52 libproxy-tools libqt4-network libqt4-test libresid-builder0c2a
  libsdl-image1.2 libshine3 libsidplay2 libupnp6 libusageenvironment1 libva-drm1 libva-x11-1
  libvcdinfo0 libvlc5 libvlccore8 libvncclient0 libxcb-composite0 mkvtoolnix vlc vlc-data
  vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
Suggested packages:
  frei0r-plugins firmware-crystalhd mkvtoolnix-gui videolan-doc libdvdcss2
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Setting up libdc1394-utils (2.2.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Once the package is installed, click on the Activities window and type the vokoscreen package name in the search bar and click on the icon to run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Vokoscreen provides an easy clikc and capture way of doing the screencasting.