How To Install libcamera-ipa on Debian 12

Learn how to install libcamera-ipa on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libcamera-ipa is complex camera support library (IPA modules)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-ipa on Debian 12.

What is libcamera-ipa

libcamera-ipa is:

libcamera is a complex camera support library which handles low-level control of the camera devices, providing a unified higher-level programming interface to the applications.

This package contains the libcamera IPA (Image Processing Algorithms) modules.

There are three methods to install libcamera-ipa on Debian 12. 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-ipa 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-ipa using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcamera-ipa

Install libcamera-ipa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcamera-ipa

Install libcamera-ipa 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcamera-ipa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcamera-ipa

How To Uninstall libcamera-ipa on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libcamera-ipa

Uninstall libcamera-ipa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcamera-ipa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcamera-ipa

Remove libcamera-ipa Configurations and Data

To remove libcamera-ipa configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcamera-ipa

Remove libcamera-ipa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcamera-ipa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcamera-ipa

Dependencies

libcamera-ipa have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-ipa package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.