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Chrishan
Chrishan

Reputation: 126

Unable to install picamera2 on Rasbperry Pi

I'm trying to run a python script in my Rasbperry pi that imports the package picamera2. Specifically using from picamera2 import Picamera2,Preview

However, I'm getting this error: ImportError: No module named 'picamera2'

Struggling to get it installed. Why can't this package be found?

I've tried to install the package by doing an update and installing the package (as indicated in https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2)

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install -y python3-picamera2

But running the last line returns the error: Unable to locate package python3-picamera2

I've also tried pip install picamera2 but that returns No matching distribution found for picamera2

Info:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7585

Answers (4)

flagg19
flagg19

Reputation: 1782

Citing documentation:

Picamera2 is only supported on Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye (or later) images

You are on Stretch (2 versions older than Bullseye). That's probably why you cant install it with apt.

I don't know if there's a way to make it work, maybe you can use the older package picamera 1.13

Upvotes: 0

Dhruv Gangani
Dhruv Gangani

Reputation: 1

I had the same error.
Unable to locate package python3-picamera2

sudo apt install -y python3-picamera2

this package is not installed in UNIX

Upvotes: 0

novski
novski

Reputation: 206

I had to reload the system wide packages installed from apt in to my venv to make it available in there. first deactivate and head in to your repo and then reload the packages with:

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages myenv

activate your venv and check with pip list if the package is there now.

Upvotes: 1

lcm
lcm

Reputation: 11

I had the same error. I resolved running: /usr/bin/python3 ./your_script.py instead of python ./your_script.py.

The problem was that my default python was /home/pi/miniconda3/bin/python but the command sudo apt install -y python3-picamera2 installs the package for /usr/bin/python3. This at least what I understood.

Upvotes: 1

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