Okay, the first thing you want to do is make sure you've got all the packages that you need from the SuSE distribution installed, the key things here are the imlib2-loaders and imlib2-devel packages. Install these using YaST or APT (whichever you happen to use), and the main imlib2 package will also be installed if it's not already.

Next, install giblib from the camE site, this is a standard ./configure && make && make install jobbie, and now you're onto the real thing. Building camE is even easier, you don't even need a ./configure stage - make && make install and you're almost good to go.

Most people will be running camE in a situation where they save the cam image to their local filesystem in a location where Apache can find it (~/public_html probably). So, you need to copy example.camErc to ~/.camErc, and edit it as you require. Create a ~/.caminfo to contain your caption, and you're set, simply run camE. It backgrounds automatically, so you can log out of that session, and it'll run until you kill it.

If you want your webcam to update automatically like mine does, feel free to copy the JavaScript from my cam page.