Install OpenCV 3.0.0 for Ubuntu or Debian

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

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 libgtkglext1-dev libvtk6-dev

Media I/O:

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

FFMPEG for Debian 8 taken from (with some modifications and updates from myself) https://support.assetbank.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/115005343247-Installing-Ffmpeg-on-Debian-GNU-Linux-Version-8-0-Jessie-

cd ..

mkdir src_ffmpeg

cd src_ffmpeg

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.3.tar.bz2

tar xvjf ffmpeg-3.3.tar.bz2

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-nonfree --extra-cflags="-fPIC"

make -j4

sudo make install

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

INSTALL THE LIBRARY (YOU CAN CHANGE '3.0.0' FOR THE LAST STABLE VERSION)

sudo apt-get install -y unzip wget

cd ~

wget https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/3.0.0.zip

unzip 3.0.0.zip

rm 3.0.0.zip

cd opencv-3.0.0

mkdir build

cd build

Documentation says -DWITH_FFMPEG is ON by default but I had to manually set it ON for me to work

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DWITH_TBB=ON -DWITH_XINE=ON -DWITH_IPP=ON -DWITH_FFMPEG=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DBUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON ..