How to install openCV 2.4.13 for Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I have tried a lot of online posts to install opencv but they are not working for Ubuntu 16.04. May anyone please give me the steps to install openCV 2.4.13 on it?

Answer 1

According to this source, from Ubuntu 16.04, you can now just do this to install OpenCV for Python2.7:

pip install opencv-python

or for python3:

pip3 install opencv-python

For more information, see here.

I tested this on my machine and it works, great stuff this :).

This is much easier than all other methods I have come across thus far.