Install
Download Camera Hub
For 64-bit Linux, from us — Camera Hub is not in any distribution's archive.
Current release: 2026.9.1
Four ways in, and they are not equivalent. A package from your distribution's repository updates with everything else on the machine and pulls in what it needs. The AppImage asks nothing of the system and updates only when you replace it. Prefer the package if there is one for your distribution.
Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives
camera-hub_2026.9.1_amd64.deb · 3.8 MB
sudo apt install ./camera-hub_2026.9.1_amd64.debapt install ./file.deb rather than dpkg -i: the first
resolves the dependencies, the second leaves the package half-installed and tells you to
run apt --fix-broken install afterwards.
Fedora and derivatives
camera-hub-2026.9.1-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm · 1.8 MB
sudo dnf install ./camera-hub-2026.9.1-1.fc41.x86_64.rpmArch and derivatives
camera-hub-2026.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst · 2.1 MB
sudo pacman -U ./camera-hub-2026.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zstAppImage — everything else
CameraHub-2026.9.1-x86_64.AppImage · 133 MB
chmod +x CameraHub-2026.9.1-x86_64.AppImage
./CameraHub-2026.9.1-x86_64.AppImageIt needs glibc 2.39 or newer — Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40 and anything more recent. That floor is not a preference: the AppImage is built on the oldest base that carries a libadwaita new enough for the app, and it cannot be lowered without giving up the toolkit.
It is large because it carries its own GTK4, libadwaita and GStreamer, including the
gtk4paintablesink plugin every video frame is drawn through. The graphics,
audio and font libraries are deliberately not bundled: those have to be the
host's, or the app opens a black window on hardware that works perfectly.
What it needs
- A 64-bit x86 Linux system with a GNOME-class desktop. It runs elsewhere, but it is a GTK4/libadwaita application and looks at home under GNOME.
- GTK 4.14 or newer and libadwaita 1.5 or newer, which the distribution packages declare and pull in for you.
- GStreamer with the base, good, bad and libav plugin sets. The
gtk4paintablesinkelement is packaged by Fedora and Arch and declared as a dependency there; on Debian and Ubuntu it is not packaged at all, so the.debcarries its own build of it.
Source and licence
Camera Hub is free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later. The source is at code.synapsi.ai/products/apps/gnome-camera-hub/source, and the packages above are built from it in containers, one per distribution — never on a developer's machine, because a GTK4 application links against whatever libadwaita was on the machine that built it.