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.TH "LIBGPHOTO2" "3" "08/16/2006" "" "The gPhoto2 Reference (the man"
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.SH "NAME"
libgphoto2 \- cross\-platform digital camera library
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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#include <gphoto2/gphoto2.h>
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
The
gphoto2
library provides applications with access to a variety of cameras.
.PP
This man page will be extended with autogenerated documentation of the interface types and methods used for communication between the
gphoto2
library and a frontend.
.SH "FILES"
.TP
\fI~/.gphoto/settings\fR
Here
gphoto2
applications may store their configuration used to access
gphoto2.
.PP
To track down errors, you can add the
\fB\-\-debug\fR
parameter to the
\fBgphoto2\fR
command line and, if dealing with USB problems, setting the environment variable
\fBUSB_DEBUG\fR\fI=1\fR.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.TP
\fBCAMLIBS\fR
If set, defines the directory where the
libgphoto2
library looks for its camera drivers (camlibs). You only need to set this on Windows systems and broken/test installations.
.TP
\fBIOLIBS\fR
If set, defines the directory where the
libgphoto2_port
library looks for its I/O drivers (iolibs). You only need to set this on Windows systems and broken/test installations.
.TP
\fBLD_DEBUG\fR
Set this to
\fIall\fR
to receive lots of debug information regarding library loading on
\fBld\fR
based systems.
.TP
\fBUSB_DEBUG\fR
If set, defines the numeric debug level with which the
libusb
library will print messages. In order to get some debug output, set it to
\fI1\fR.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
gphoto2(1),
libgphoto2_port(3), The gPhoto2 Manual, automatically generated
API
docs,
[1]\&\fIgphoto website\fR
.
.SH "AUTHOR"
The gPhoto2 Team. 
.br
Hans Ulrich Niedermann <gp@n\-dimensional.de>. (man page)
.SH "REFERENCES"
.TP 3
1.\ gphoto website
\%http://www.gphoto.org/