Installing OpenCV3 on Debian or Ubuntu

install_opencv_debian.sh

#!/bin/bash


# VERSION TO BE INSTALLED

OPENCV_VERSION='3.4.2'


# 1. KEEP UBUNTU OR DEBIAN UP TO DATE

sudo apt-get -y update
# sudo apt-get -y upgrade       # Uncomment this line to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed
# sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade  # Uncomment this line to, in addition to 'upgrade', handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages
sudo apt-get -y autoremove    # Uncomment this line to remove packages that are now no longer needed


# 2. 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 qt5-default 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

# 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


# 3. INSTALL THE LIBRARY

sudo apt-get install -y unzip wget
wget https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/${OPENCV_VERSION}.zip
unzip ${OPENCV_VERSION}.zip
rm ${OPENCV_VERSION}.zip
mv opencv-${OPENCV_VERSION} OpenCV
cd OpenCV
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_QT=ON -DWITH_OPENGL=ON -DFORCE_VTK=ON -DWITH_TBB=ON -DWITH_GDAL=ON -DWITH_XINE=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF ..
make -j8
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig