How To Install megapixels on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install megapixels in Fedora 36. megapixels is GTK4 camera application that knows how to deal with the media request api

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install megapixels on Fedora 36.

What is megapixels

A GTK4 camera application that knows how to deal with the media request api. It uses opengl to debayer the raw sensor data for the preview.

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

Install megapixels 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 megapixels using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install megapixels

Install megapixels 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 megapixels using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install megapixels

How To Uninstall megapixels on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the megapixels package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove megapixels

megapixels Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/megapixels
/usr/bin/megapixels-camera-test
/usr/bin/megapixels-list-devices
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/dc7be512cde1cdb3c8e3878583ee083a42c75c
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/85296e038750f90dcacce892568b95d2b2c810
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/d38b82d32a2e499a1979e65c6935c862f1cb00
/usr/share/applications/org.postmarketos.Megapixels.desktop
/usr/share/doc/megapixels
/usr/share/doc/megapixels/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.postmarketos.Megapixels.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.postmarketos.Megapixels.svg
/usr/share/licenses/megapixels
/usr/share/licenses/megapixels/LICENSE
/usr/share/megapixels
/usr/share/megapixels/config
/usr/share/megapixels/config/pine64,pinephone-1.0.ini
/usr/share/megapixels/config/pine64,pinephone-1.1.ini
/usr/share/megapixels/config/pine64,pinephone-1.2.ini
/usr/share/megapixels/config/pine64,pinetab.ini
/usr/share/megapixels/postprocess.sh
/usr/share/metainfo/org.postmarketos.Megapixels.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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