Installing OpenCV on Linux

To install OpenCV in Debain/Ubuntu systems:

1. Go to the following link and save the bash script on your system: bash script
2. Open your terminals and change directory to where the bash script is saved
3. Run the bash script using sudo bash file_name.sh ; where file_name is the name by which you have saved the script
4. It may take quite a bit of time to install all the dependencies, depending on your system
5. Once the installation is finished start Python on the bash terminal and enter import cv2
6. If the above statement executes then CONGRATUALTIONS you have successfully installed OpenCV