How To Install pipewire-libcamera on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-libcamera on Debian 12.
What is pipewire-libcamera
pipewire-libcamera is:
PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:
- Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
- Accessing sources of video for consumption.
- Generating graphs for audio and video processing.
This package contains the libcamera plugin.
There are three methods to install pipewire-libcamera 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 pipewire-libcamera Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-libcamera using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-libcamera
Install pipewire-libcamera Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pipewire-libcamera using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pipewire-libcamera
Install pipewire-libcamera 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 pipewire-libcamera using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pipewire-libcamera
How To Uninstall pipewire-libcamera on Debian 12
To uninstall only the pipewire-libcamera package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pipewire-libcamera
Uninstall pipewire-libcamera And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pipewire-libcamera and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pipewire-libcamera
Remove pipewire-libcamera Configurations and Data
To remove pipewire-libcamera configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pipewire-libcamera
Remove pipewire-libcamera configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pipewire-libcamera configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pipewire-libcamera
Dependencies
pipewire-libcamera have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire-libcamera package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
