Tutorial on how to install OpenCV on 64bit Linux Ubuntu 14.04
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OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people in their user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 6 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics.
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Source Code Steps For Installation
#get the latest download
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/openc...
#download dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall cmake pkg-config yasm
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-numpy
sudo apt-get install libtbb-dev
cmake -D WITH_XINE=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON -D WITH_TBB=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -D WITH_V4L=ON..
#ready for building
sudo make
#after building install for all users
sudo make install
#open a text editor and edit the ld.so.conf file by changing directory into it with privileges
sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf
#and enter the following line into it
/usr/local/lib
#close and save and exit and enter the following command
sudo ldconfig
sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
#Now you are ready for testing
cd ~/OpenCV-2.4.6/samples/c
chmod +x build_all.sh
./build_all.sh
#try the python examples and make sure they work
python ~/OpenCV-2.4.10/samples/python2/turing.py
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