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Camera app cannot be installed

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    • A Offline
      AppLee @Fish
      last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 08:16

      @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.

      F 1 Reply Last reply 23 Sept 2024, 10:08 Reply Quote 0
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        arubislander @Fish
        last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 08:18

        @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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          Fish @AppLee
          last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 10:08

          @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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            AppLee @Fish
            last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 10:10

            @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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              Fish
              last edited by Fish 23 Sept 2024, 10:16

              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
                last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 10:38

                @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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                F 1 Reply Last reply 23 Sept 2024, 10:44 Reply Quote 0
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                  Fish @arubislander
                  last edited by Fish 23 Sept 2024, 10:44

                  @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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                    arubislander @Fish
                    last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 10:51

                    @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
                      last edited by Fish 23 Sept 2024, 11:07

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                        arubislander @Fish
                        last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 11:25

                        @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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                        F 1 Reply Last reply 23 Sept 2024, 11:41 Reply Quote 0
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                          Fish @arubislander
                          last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 11:41

                          @arubislander Mh... it looks like nothing is going to happen. It just appears again: phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

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                            arubislander @Fish
                            last edited by arubislander 23 Sept 2024, 11:42

                            @Fish Yes, if the copying succeeds it doesn't give any feedback, but the folder should be there under /usr/share/click/preinstalled /opt/click.ubuntu.com/. Have you checked?

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                            F 1 Reply Last reply 23 Sept 2024, 11:47 Reply Quote 0
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                              Fish @arubislander
                              last edited by 23 Sept 2024, 11:47

                              @arubislander Oh yes, it's there. I've just checked.

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                                Fish @Fish
                                last edited by Fish 24 Sept 2024, 09:42

                                Unfortunately, this had no effect on the (non-)existence of the camera app...

                                So ... No solution in sight. Well. Maybe I'll think of something later. I'll leave the thread unsolved and if anyone else has an idea - always welcome. I'll check in from time to time. As long as there's no camera in the cell phone.

                                M 1 Reply Last reply 24 Sept 2024, 10:22 Reply Quote 0
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                                  Moem @Fish
                                  last edited by Moem 24 Sept 2024, 10:22

                                  @Fish Sorry to be late to the party, and I haven´t read the whole thread... but I had a similar problem and these messages from @danfro fixed it for me:

                                  Basically we need to get rid of everything named "camera" in /opt and /home

                                  You could delete camera apps settings as well as the cache.
                                  ~/.config/camera.ubports
                                  Not many settings there anyway. Although I do not really expect that to change much.

                                  And so I asked him, on your behalf, and he gave me this:
                                  https://t.me/ut_troubleshooting/19

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                                  Also owns an Op1, a BQ E4.5 and an Xperia X, as well as a BQ tablet and a Pinetab2. Please, someone... make it stop.

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                                    Fish @Moem
                                    last edited by Fish 25 Sept 2024, 06:12

                                    @Moem That worked! Wonderful! I am really pleased. Problem solved. The camera app simply reappeared after restarting the phone.

                                    Steps (in the link):
                                    1 open terminal app
                                    2. Find the files:
                                    sudo find /opt -iname *camera*
                                    3. remove all files of that app that are listed
                                    sudo rm -r PATH
                                    4. reboot the device

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                                      Moem @Fish
                                      last edited by 25 Sept 2024, 07:30

                                      @Fish That's great, I'm so glad i could help!

                                      Is currently using an Op5t
                                      Also owns an Op1, a BQ E4.5 and an Xperia X, as well as a BQ tablet and a Pinetab2. Please, someone... make it stop.

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