After installing the picamera library using pip, whenever I import the library I get this error: OSError: libmmal.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I am running ubuntu 14.04, with python 2.7.6. When I attemt to search for this elusive libmmal.so: $ sudo find / -name libmmal.so /root/mounts/backups/root/opt/vc/lib/libmmal.so /root/mounts/root-backup/opt/vc/lib/libmmal.so Both of which are backups of my raspberry pi, and are therefore irrelevant. Continue reading...