

You can skip optional dependencies if you don't want. Building OpenCV from sourceĬompiling from source may seem a little complicated at first, but once you succeeded in it, there is nothing complicated.įirst we will install some dependencies. Also at some point in time, if you want to contribute to OpenCV, you will need this. So for getting latest source codes preference is next method, i.e.

With respect to Python API, latest version will always contain much better support and latest bug fixes. For example, at the time of writing this tutorial, apt repository contains 2.4.8 while latest OpenCV version is 3.x. Apt repositories may not contain the latest version of OpenCV always. If the results are printed out without any errors, congratulations !!! You have installed OpenCV-Python successfully.
