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It is a rite of passage to post one's successful build instructions for OpenCV on a Mac
after you've tried all the other conflicting instructions out there and still failed.
brew failed for me (was this because I could never get a happy brew doctor situation?
I'll never know). macports? nope. build-from-source recipes? I didn't find one that
worked for me.
Here's what did work to build OpenCV 2.4.5 from the distribution tarball using cmake,
on Mac OSX 10.8.4, linked to an anaconda installation rather than the system python.
It is a mashup of various bits of advice out there. If you're already comfortable with
build/install from source, all you need to read is the cmake invocation in step 3 and
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diPDew / 0_reuse_code.js
Created April 25, 2014 07:50
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console
#!/bin/sh
# one way (older scala version will be installed)
# sudo apt-get install scala
#2nd way
sudo apt-get remove scala-library scala
wget http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.11.4.deb
sudo dpkg -i scala-2.11.4.deb
sudo apt-get update

What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

  • An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
  • One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
  • With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
  • Anaconda for Python.
  • Coffee/Beer/Time