Installing OpenCV on Linux Here is brief description on how to build the latest version of OpenCV. See INSTALL file shipped with OpenCV for more detail. The required packages are listed below: GCC 4.x or later. In Ubuntu/Debian it can be installed with sudo apt-get install build-essentialCMake 2.6 or higher Subversion (SVN) client GTK+ 2.x or higher, including headers (e.g. libgtk2.0-dev) pkgconfi