OpenCV 3.0.0 Installation on Ubuntu

install_opencv.sh

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get -y autoremove
sudo apt-get install checkinstall

# build developer tools. Some of these are probably non-pertinent
sudo apt-get install -y git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential \
     libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev \
     libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
     python-software-properties

# numpy is a dependency for OpenCV, so most of these other
# packages are probably optional
sudo apt-get install -y python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose
## Other scientific libraries (obviously not needed for OpenCV)
pip install -U scikit-learn
pip install -U nltk

### opencv from source
# first, installing some utilities
sudo apt-get install -y qt-sdk unzip
export OPENCV_VER=3.0.0
curl "http://fossies.org/linux/misc/opencv-${OPENCV_VER}.zip" -o opencv-${OPENCV_VER}.zip
unzip "opencv-${OPENCV_VER}.zip" && cd "opencv-${OPENCV_VER}"
mkdir build && cd build
# build without ffmpeg
cmake -D WITH_TBB=ON -D BUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON \
      -D WITH_V4L=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON \
      -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
      -D WITH_QT=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON -D WITH_VTK=ON \
      -D WITH_FFMPEG=OFF ..
make -j2
sudo checkinstall
sudo sh -c 'echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencv.conf'
sudo ldconfig
echo "OpenCV" ${OPENCV_VER} "ready to be used"