Amungmiak

The latest Long Term Support version of Ubuntu(14.04 LTS) is out and a new version of OpenCV was recently released as well. This means that now is a great opportunity to update my OpenCV installation guide to the latest versions, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and OpenCV 2.4.9.

One of the great additions in this new release of OpenCV is the new viz module, which offers a nice 3D visualizer. This module is based on the great Visualization Toolkit library (VTK) and nicely prepares the users for the upcoming OpenCV 3.

In this guide, I will show you how to install OpenCV with a lot of the features it provides. Here are some of the things that are going to be enabled when you are finished following through with this installation tutorial:

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OK, so the first step is to make sure that everything in the system is updated and upgraded. Open the terminal and write this:

Now, you need to install many dependencies, such as support for reading and writing image files, drawing on the screen, some needed tools, other libraries, etc… This step is very easy, you only need to write the following command in the Terminal:

Time to get the OpenCV 2.4.9 source code: