Installing OpenCV for Python on Ubuntu, getting ImportError: No module named cv2.cv

Question

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system, on which I want to install OpenCV and use it with Python 2.x.

I installed OpenCV using the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/

Answer 1

For those who are trying to use 3.1.0 but after installing python says "cv2 module not found".

You likely have python but not python-dev.

sudo apt-get install python-dev

then reinstall 3.1.0 and it'll work.