Unable to reinstall or run Hailo-8L on Raspberry Pi 5 after OS updates

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Subject: Unable to reinstall or run Hailo-8L on Raspberry Pi 5 after OS updates

Hello,

I’m using a Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB RAM) with a Hailo-8L module.
Initially, everything worked fine — I successfully followed the official setup instructions from this repository:
:backhand_index_pointing_right: https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailo-rpi5-examples/blob/main/doc/contributing-community-project.md sudo apt install hailo-all and other package installation variants (from .deb or .whl files) did not work — either the package could not be found or produced dependency errors.

  1. The .sh setup scripts and Docker containers fail with “insufficient memory (only 8GB available)” errors.
  2. Rebuilding HailoRT manually via cmake and make finishes, but the Python bindings cannot be imported (import hailort returns an empty module).
  3. Example pipelines (like detection_simple.py) fail to start with missing libraries such as: ImportError: libgsthailometa.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element “hailofilter”

gst-inspect-1.0 | grep hailo shows that Hailo GStreamer plugins are missing after reinstallation.

  1. Installing .whl files from the SDK (like hailort-4.22.0-cp312-cp312-linux_aarch64.whl) gives: ERROR: … is not a supported wheel on this platform What I’ve tried

    • Reinstalling with sudo apt install hailo-all and other variants (hailo-tappas-core-python-binding, hailo_dataflow_compiler, etc.).

    • Creating a clean virtual environment (python3 -m venv --system-site-packages hailo_venv) and installing requirements.txt from the examples repo.

    • Building HailoRT manually from source (https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailort

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The hailo-all package has not been updated by Raspberry yet.
You can still install Raspberry Pi OS based on the previous version Debian 12 (Bookworm). For more details please read my answer to the following forum post.

Hailo Community - Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Hat (26 TOPS) - Unable to locate package hailo-all

This has also been confirmed in the Raspberry forum. See this post, one of our forum users shared.

Hailo Community - Hailo-all images not ready for Raspberry Pi “Trixie”

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