Raspberry Pi 3 and Opencv 3 Installation Tutorial

We’re going to see today how to install opencv on the raspberry pi 3 Model b+ (with camera).

1) Update os system:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2) Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake pkg-config
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran

3) Install Python 3 and Pip3:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

4) Install Opencv:

pip3 install opencv-python

5) Extra depencies for Opencv and the Camera:

sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

1 Comment

S Subhash Kumar February 5, 2019 at 11:19 am

HI, I tried to install open cv in my raspberry pi using your commands but I’m getting errors pls help me to install open cv and other packages open cv was installed in my pi but getting an error while importing cv2, and imutils, I trayed the code
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4 install open cv still its showing error pls help me it install open cv and other packages imutils , requests , json , base64