26.51 | E | qrscanner | failed to load zbar. exceptions

My device has an Intel 12th generation CPU and Debian Bookworm is installed with the updated stable kernel version linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 (=6.1.67-1).

The version of Electrum that I use is Electrum-4.5.0.tar.gz

The following dependencies are installed:

Code:

sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 libsecp256k1-dev python3-cryptography

To launch Electrum, I run the following command in a terminal:

Code:

python3 Electrum-4.5.0/run_electrum

That is when the following error message appears:

Code:

username@hostname:~$ python3 electrum/run_electrum
26.51 | E | qrscanner | failed to load zbar. exceptions: [OSError('/home/username/electrum/electrum/libzbar.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'), OSError('libzbar.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')]
username@hostname:~$

Can I just ignore the above error message?

I have used Google and also the Search box in bitcointalk.org for solutions and found none.

Thank you for your help.