Sun, Aug 4, 2019
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TLDR: curl -L https://gist.github.com/dynamicguy/3d1fce8dae65e765f7c4/raw/21e9f30cd14ac6fd8b9f82eb7fc52137e1492bae/install-opencv-2.4.11-in-ubuntu.sh | sh
install the prerequisite dependencies
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y cmake
sudo apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config
sudo apt-get install -y python-numpy python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev
sudo apt-get -qq install libopencv-dev build-essential checkinstall cmake pkg-config yasm libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev python-dev python-numpy libtbb-dev libqt4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev x264 v4l-utils
download opencv-2.4.11
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencvlibrary/opencv-unix/2.4.11/opencv-2.4.11.zip
unzip opencv-2.4.11.zip
cd opencv-2.4.11
mkdir release
cd release
compile and install
cmake -G “Unix Makefiles” -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/g++ CMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -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 BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB=ON -D INSTALL_TO_MANGLED_PATHS=ON -D INSTALL_CREATE_DISTRIB=ON -D INSTALL_TESTS=ON -D ENABLE_FAST_MATH=ON -D WITH_IMAGEIO=ON -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF ..
make all -j4 #4 cores
sudo make install
ignore libdc1394 error http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12689304/ctypes-error-libdc1394-error-failed-to-initialize-libdc1394
python
import cv2
cv2.SIFT
OR
you can just download this shell script https://gist.github.com/dynamicguy/3d1fce8dae65e765f7c4 and execute it with sudo use