How To Install libcamera-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libcamera-tools
libcamera-tools is:
libcamera is a complex camera support library which handles low-level control of the camera devices, providing a unified higher-level
This package provides cam and qcam, libcamera “Swiss army knife” tools.
There are three methods to install libcamera-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcamera-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcamera-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcamera-tools
Install libcamera-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcamera-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcamera-tools
Install libcamera-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcamera-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcamera-tools
How To Uninstall libcamera-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libcamera-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcamera-tools
Uninstall libcamera-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcamera-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcamera-tools
Remove libcamera-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libcamera-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcamera-tools
Remove libcamera-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcamera-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcamera-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-tools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.