How To Install isight-firmware-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install isight-firmware-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is isight-firmware-tools
isight-firmware-tools is:
Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed.
A convenient tool for converting firmware binaries to Intel HEX format is also provided. This may be required later for use with a generic firmware loader such as fxload.
There are three methods to install isight-firmware-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install isight-firmware-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 isight-firmware-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install isight-firmware-tools
Install isight-firmware-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install isight-firmware-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install isight-firmware-tools
Install isight-firmware-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 isight-firmware-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install isight-firmware-tools
How To Uninstall isight-firmware-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the isight-firmware-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove isight-firmware-tools
Uninstall isight-firmware-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall isight-firmware-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove isight-firmware-tools
Remove isight-firmware-tools Configurations and Data
To remove isight-firmware-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge isight-firmware-tools
Remove isight-firmware-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove isight-firmware-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge isight-firmware-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install isight-firmware-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
