How To Install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-qcam in Fedora 36. libcamera-qcam is Graphical QCam application for libcamera

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36.

What is `libcamera-qcam`

Graphical QCam application for libcamera

We can use yum or dnf to install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcamera-qcam.

Install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libcamera-qcam using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcamera-qcam

Install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libcamera-qcam using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcamera-qcam

How To Uninstall libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the libcamera-qcam package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libcamera-qcam

libcamera-qcam Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/qcam
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/72e9b1200e2cdeba705e1314c6a9561fc44368
/usr/share/applications/qcam.desktop
/usr/share/metainfo/qcam.metainfo.xml

References

libcamera-qcam website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-qcam on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).