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    Camera app cannot be installed

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      • arubislanderA Offline
        arubislander @Fish
        last edited by

        @Fish please see this post.

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        • FishF Offline
          Fish @arubislander
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          @arubislander I have tried this:

          cd /opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/@all
          sudo rm camera.ubports
          

          The camera.ubports folder was then also gone.
          Unfortunately, this does not lead to the result either. Or the same as before...no camera app and no possibility to install it...

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          • FishF Offline
            Fish
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            Restarting the phone: the app is still gone, but the folder is back...

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            • AppLeeA Offline
              AppLee @Fish
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              @Fish

              What do you see when ls -la /opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/@all after the reboot?

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              • FishF Offline
                Fish @AppLee
                last edited by arubislander

                @AppLee
                lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Sept 21 1 1:12 camera.ubports -> /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports/4.0.6

                Before and after other app entries

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                • AppLeeA Offline
                  AppLee @Fish
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                  @Fish

                  Weird, I have:
                  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 juin 15 06:07 camera.ubports -> /opt/click.ubuntu.com/camera.ubports/4.0.6/

                  So basically there are two locations for the camera.
                  First in the preinstalled folder:
                  /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports
                  The other in the regular folder:
                  /opt/click.ubuntu.com/camera.ubports

                  What I would do is copy the data from the preinstalled folder to the regular folder then reset the links pointing to the regular folder.
                  Reboot and see what it did...

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                  • FishF Offline
                    Fish
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                    That does not work. Nothing is copied. Not even via the terminal. The error message -r not specified appears. However, the path to the destination is correct.

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                    • BollyB Offline
                      Bolly @Fish
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                      @Fish said in Camera app cannot be installed:

                      @AppLee I have tried changing the channels. Unfortunately, the camera app is still missing ... and cannot be installed. It almost looks like there are no more photos for me now... 😖

                      I suppose that apart from changing them, you installed the downloaded image, right?

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                      • FishF Offline
                        Fish @Bolly
                        last edited by

                        @Bolly Naturally. Otherwise there would be no point. 🙂

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                        • FishF Offline
                          Fish
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                          This morning I tried to see if a new installation (without ticking the ‘wipe userdata’ box) would be successful. Unfortunately, the camera app is still gone and can no longer be installed... I don't understand this anymore. What is the reason for this? Surely it must be possible to reinstall this app somehow? There must be some very strange bug behind it!

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                          • AppLeeA Offline
                            AppLee @Fish
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                            @Fish said in Camera app cannot be installed:

                            There must be some very strange bug behind it!

                            Not necessarily a bug.
                            What one cannot comprehend is not an anomaly.

                            To understand better, you have to consider that core preinstalled apps have a particularity, they used to ship with the system image and could only be updated via a full system update.
                            Now they can also be updated through the open-store which is great but lead to some unexpected behavior with unplanned scenarios like removal of these apps.

                            The error message -r not specified appears. However, the path to the destination is correct.

                            That's a weird error message.
                            And I guess it should be possible to copy the files, I would dig in this direction if I were you.

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                            • arubislanderA Offline
                              arubislander @Fish
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                              @Fish said in Camera app cannot be installed:

                              The error message -r not specified appears. However, the path to the destination is correct.

                              What is the exact command that produces this error?

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                              • FishF Offline
                                Fish @AppLee
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                                @AppLee The copying has now worked. Apparently I have to write “sudo” in front of everything. But that didn't help either.

                                Well, with the bug I also meant that the camera app somehow removed itself. It was simply no longer there after the restart. And now I can no longer install it. That's kind of annoying.

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                                • AppLeeA Offline
                                  AppLee @Fish
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                                  @Fish
                                  Oh, I thought you purposedly removed the camera app to try to reinstall it.
                                  Can you give us the exact command you typed?

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                                  • FishF Offline
                                    Fish
                                    last edited by Fish

                                    Im Verzeichnis /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports
                                    sudo cp -f -r camera.ubports /opt/click.ubuntu.com/camera.ubports

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                                      arubislander @Fish
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                                      @Fish I get:

                                      cp: cannot stat 'camera.ubports': No such file or directory
                                      

                                      which is correct since there is no camera.ubports directory in the /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports folder, only 4.6.0 and current, which is a symlink to 4.6.0

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                                      • FishF Offline
                                        Fish @arubislander
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                                        @arubislander I have the camera.ubports directory in the /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports folder. But there was none in /opt/click.ubuntu.com/camera.ubports, where AppLee's folder ist located.

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                                        • arubislanderA Offline
                                          arubislander @Fish
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                                          @Fish So you have a /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports/camera.ubports folder? That's not right, and might be at the root of this issue.

                                          can you do a

                                          ls -al /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports
                                          

                                          and then

                                          ls -al /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports/camera.ubports
                                          

                                          and paste both results here?

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                                            Fish @arubislander
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                                            • arubislanderA Offline
                                              arubislander @Fish
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                                              @Fish said in Camera app cannot be installed:

                                              I have the camera.ubports directory in the /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports folder

                                              So in fact you do not have a camera.ubports directory in the /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports folder, but in the /usr/share/click/preinstalled folder.

                                              Can you please go to your home folder and try:

                                              sudo cp -R /usr/share/click/preinstalled/camera.ubports /opt/click.ubuntu.com/
                                              

                                              then if it is copied properly

                                              sudo chown -R clickpkg:clickpkg /opt/click.ubuntu.com/camera.ubports
                                              

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