How To Install libcamera-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-tools on Debian 12.
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 programming interface to the applications.
This package provides cam and qcam, libcamera “Swiss army knife” tools.
There are three methods to install libcamera-tools 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-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 Debian. 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 Debian 12
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 Debian 12, 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 Debian 12 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
Dependencies
libcamera-tools have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcamera0.0.3
- libdrm2
- libevent-2.1-7
- libevent-pthreads-2.1-7
- libgcc-s1
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libsdl2-2.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libtiff6
- libyaml-0-2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcamera-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.