Questions tagged [rpi.gpio]

You can install the original RPi.GPIO on all Pi models before 2812 SoC (used on Pi5).
apt install python3-rpi.gpio

This was automatically installed by default in Raspberry Pi OS prior to Bullseye.
For more information see the rpio.gpio homepage.

You can install the compatibility shim on recent Raspberry Pi OS.
apt install rpi-lgpio
It is installed by default on Trixie. See https://rpi-lgpio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

This does have some limitations; See https://rpi-lgpio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/differences.html

Warning You cannot install rpi-lgpio and rpi-gpio (aka RPi.GPIO, the library it emulates) at the same time, in the same Python environment. Both packages attempt to install a module named RPi.GPIO and obviously this will not work.

Please Note!

If you are not aware, there are a number of different pieces of software that serve a similar fundamental purpose (controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins) and are independent of one another. Not surprisingly, they also all use spins on combining "rpi" and "gpio" in their name. Each has a separate tag and questions about their use should use that specific tag. This is documented here to prevent confusion.

• The page you are on now is for the RPi.GPIO module for python: Tag rpi.gpio
• The pigpio library, written in C but with ports to python and other languages: Tag pigpio
• The pi-gpio library, for node.js (javascript): Tag pi-gpio

This isn't intented as an exhaustive list of such software, just the three most prone to confusion here due to the similar names perhaps made more similiar by restrictions on tag labels (all lower case, etc).