Installing opencv on ubuntu

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#1

Hey,
I am new to ubuntu(got it installed 3 days ago) and I wonder if anyone could help me with setting up opencv on it. First of all I will tell you all I have done but just know that most of the time I had no idea what I was doing… I followed few advices on installing tar.gz files from google.

  1. I downloaded the .tar.gz file from their website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.4.5/
  2. I extracted it using tar -xf
  3. I used cmake on CMakeLists.txt
  4. Then I typed inside the directory ‘make’ and after it was done I did ‘sudo make install’ and this is where I am stuck now.
#2

are you sure opencv is not in the offical repos?

#3

Have you tried following these instructions on installing it?

#4

Well, this doesn’t install the java binding as far as I understand?

#5

I am not sure if java binding is, can I somehow check it?

#6

use javacv it’s java bindings to opencv, and the javacv-0.5-cppjars file has binaries. you just need to set the jars in your classpath.

#7

Downside to this is that the documentation is really crappy or non-existent I should say.

#8

The JavaCV Google Code page has examples from the OpenCV Cookbook that have been ported to Java. This is the beginning one.

EDIT: The page I linked to also has information on how to convert from OpenCV to JavaCV if you scroll down. Using that and the OpenCV documentation should work just fine.