HOWTO: Install Kazam Screen Desktop Recorder on F15

[satanselbow]

It is not very often that I need a screen recorder - but today I did. Being a quite recent Fodora convert I had a quick squint about the forums and found nothing but problems with the more well known desktop recorders or commandline ffmeg / mencoder solutions.

A name that did crop up a few times is KAZAM - an Ubuntu Launchpad project... hmmm I thinks - shouldn't be too hard to get up on F15 being a python script... this Fedora solution is based on the Debian howto found here: http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/kazam_on_squeeze

And here it is:

1) You will need a few tools and dependencies 1st:

sudo yum install bzr intltool python-keybinder gnome-python-rsvg python-xlib python-distutils-extra python-pycurl x264-libs

2) Grab the code branch from launchpad by bzr:

sudo bzr branch lp:kazam

3) change into Kazam folder and install:

cd kazam
sudo python setup.py install

4) Job done!

You'll now have an Applications -> Sound & Video -> Kazam Screencaster shortcut in your menu

Once you have started a recording (with audio if you like and have pulse setup) you can pause / stop from the bottom panel applet and can then save the MKV to disk for or open further editing. The "Edit with" option does not seem to be working yet - at least not on my machine but that is no major hardship

Happy Screencording guys

[mues747]

i ran into some issues following these instructions... all seemed to install up until the place that you "cd /kazam"... it reported that there was no such directory, yet I browsed my files and indeed found "kazam" @ /home/user/kazam.... please help as now I have all the tools (the py-tools?) installed to build this from the source as you had instructed, yet fail to have "kazam" installed properly...

[satanselbow]

@mues

Original instructions amended - my bad - no need for leading slash on cd command!

[stealthsnake]

@satanselbow

I followed you step and did manage to install Kazam on fedora 15 and i can see the icon on Sound & Video ... but when I try to open it I get nothing !!??

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I recently switched from windows

[kisss]

how do i un-install kazam ?, it does not work well on my version of fedora "fedora 14", my test machine is too old

[fixles]

Just tried this on Fedora 17 doesnt work. When you press record it says cancel countdown and never starts recording.

Anyone know how I can uninstall it?

[secipolla]

That setup.py script might have an uninstall option too. So if you still have the kazam folder, run

sudo python setup.py uninstall

[Darek]

then i try to install it gives me
[root@fedora kazam-1.3.100-0ubuntu1]# python3.2 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 8, in <module>
from DistUtilsExtra.command import *
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

python-distutils-extra is installed

any suggestions?

[Fenrin]

Originally Posted by Darek

then i try to install it gives me
[root@fedora kazam-1.3.100-0ubuntu1]# python3.2 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 8, in <module>
from DistUtilsExtra.command import *
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

python-distutils-extra is installed

any suggestions?

python-distutils-extra is just for python 2. Did you try python setup.py install?

If it still doesn't work, you could maybe try recordmydesktop with either gtk-recordmydesktop or qt-recordmydesktop. Another alternative would be the builtin recording tool, included in Gnome Shell (you can start/stop it via Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R). The later can only be used together with Gnome Shell and lacks some features. Gnome Shell recorder can be configured below dconf-editor -> org -> gnome -> shell -> recorder.

[jamieduk]

i have installed and setup kazam screen recorder / capture but where is the default path to store the created file as i cant find it and have recorded and finished recording my desktop and would like to test and upload to youtube, thanks for your reply, ps i am using mint 14 64 bit

[FedoraLinuxKid]

Thanks! Works on Fedora 18.

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I use the default gnome recorder though. But I have this as a Fallback.