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# provision

> Install or refresh the non-PyPI and system pieces — adb, pyzed, GStreamer/PyGObject, and the patched zed-gstreamer plugins.

Installs and refreshes the pieces `uv tool install` can't manage on its own:

* **adb** + the Quest udev rule — for the [Quest-over-USB](/guides/quest-over-usb) controller transport (the `adb reverse` tunnel that streams poses over the cable). Self-gates on `apt`.
* [`zed.driver`](/cli/zed-driver) — replaces the ZED Box Duo's known-bad factory **GMSL camera driver** (`stereolabs-zedbox-duo`) with the pinned release. Takes effect on the next reboot (prints a notice; never reboots itself). A no-op off a factory-flashed ZED Box Duo.
* [`zed.install`](/cli/zed-install) — the **pyzed** bindings (not on PyPI; needs the ZED SDK).
* [`gst.install`](/cli/gst-install) — the **GStreamer + PyGObject** `appsink` stack (PyGObject builds against the system gobject-introspection and is dropped whenever the tool environment is rebuilt, e.g. by a release upgrade).
* [`gst.build-zed`](/cli/gst-build-zed) — the patched **`zedxonesrc` / `zedsrc`** plugins (sensor-accurate PTS so collected images line up with joint samples).

```bash theme={null}
axol provision
```

Both the hosted installer and the [`axol serve`](/cli/serve) self-updater run **this** command, so the set of steps lives in exactly one place and can't drift between them. Every step is idempotent and best-effort — each self-gates on the ZED SDK / `apt` / NVENC and no-ops when unavailable — so `axol provision` is safe to run on any host and re-run anytime.

<Note>
  `provision` does **not** pin the Jetson clocks — that's [`jetson.setup`](/cli/jetson-setup), a per-boot runtime tweak owned by the systemd `ExecStartPre`, not an install step.
</Note>

When there's no ZED SDK at `/usr/local/zed`, the pyzed and zed-gstreamer build steps are skipped (only the GStreamer/PyGObject stack and adb are installed).

See [Development install → Headset-video stack](/advanced/development-install#headset-video-stack) for when you'd run this by hand.