[HOW-TO] Use picamera2 on Raspberry Pi 5 running Ubuntu Server 24.04.3

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, raspberry-pi, ubuntu
Domain
documentation, embedded-iot

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Raspberry Pi libcamera and rpicam-apps installation instructions, along with the project's existing installation guidance. Determine the supported way to install picamera2 on Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 with uv and a virtual environment, then document the confirmed steps and verify that image capture works.

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Describe what it is that you want to accomplish
I'd like to be able to use the picamera2 library for image capture on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Ubuntu Server 24.04.3.

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Additional context
I've done the following:

I'm using uv with a venv. It seems the suggested approach for installing picamera2 is via apt outside of any virtualenv: sudo apt install -y python3-picamera2 --no-install-recommends, but that results in E: Unable to locate package python3-picamera2.

Any help here?

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