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OpenCV Installer Linux

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INSTALL OPENCV ON UBUNTU OR DEBIAN

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Author: Jay Lux Ferro

Date: 5th July, 2018

1. KEEP UBUNTU OR DEBIAN UP TO DATE

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -y autoremove

2. INSTALL THE DEPENDENCIES

Build tools:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake

GUI (if you want to use GTK instead of Qt, replace 'qt5-default' with 'libgtkglext1-dev' and remove '-DWITH_QT=ON' option in CMake):

sudo apt-get install -y qt5-default libvtk6-dev

Media I/O:

sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libwebp-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libopenexr-dev libgdal-dev

Video I/O:

sudo apt-get install -y libdc1394-22-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev yasm libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libv4l-dev libxine2-dev

Parallelism and linear algebra libraries:

sudo apt-get install -y libtbb-dev libeigen3-dev

Python:

sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-tk python-numpy python3-dev python3-tk python3-numpy

Java:

sudo apt-get install -y ant default-jdk

Documentation:

sudo apt-get install -y doxygen

3. INSTALL THE LIBRARY

sudo apt-get install -y unzip wget
wget https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/3.3.0.zip
unzip 3.3.0.zip
rm 3.3.0.zip
mv opencv-3.3.0 OpenCV
cd OpenCV
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_QT=ON -DWITH_OPENGL=ON -DFORCE_VTK=ON -DWITH_TBB=ON -DWITH_GDAL=ON -DWITH_XINE=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF ..
make -j4
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
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