Raspberry pi camera module issue OSError

Question

I am trying to run Raspberry Pi camera module on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B using Python but I am getting this error:

OSError: libmmal.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory 

Answer 1

If you are using the Raspbian distro, you probably have picamera installed by default. You can find out simply by starting Python and trying to import picamera:

Referenced

https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.13/