Building OpenCV from Source

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

echo "Installing build tools"
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake pkg-config

echo "Installing GUI libraries and OpenGL extensions"
if [ $WITH_QT -ne 0 ]; then
  sudo apt-get -y install libqt4-dev
  sudo apt-get -y install libqt4-opengl-dev
else
  sudo apt-get -y install libgtk2.0-dev
  sudo apt-get -y install libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1-dev
fi

echo "Installing Python libraries"
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev python-numpy
sudo apt-get -y install python-scipy

echo "Installing media I/O libraries"
sudo apt-get -y install libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libpng++-dev libpng3
sudo apt-get -y install libpnglite-dev libpngwriter0-dev libpngwriter0c2
sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g zlib1g-dbg zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get -y install pngtools
sudo apt-get -y install libjasper1 libjasper-dev libjasper-runtime
sudo apt-get -y install libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dbg libjpeg8-dev libjpeg-progs
sudo apt-get -y install libtiff4-dev libtiff4 libtiffxx0c2 libtiff-tools
sudo apt-get -y install openexr libopenexr-dev libopenexr6

echo "Installing video I/O libraries"
sudo apt-get -y install libavcodec53 libavcodec-dev libavformat53 libavformat-dev libavutil51 libavutil-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libswscale2 libswscale-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libxine1-ffmpeg libxine-dev libxine1-bin
sudo apt-get -y install libunicap2 libunicap2-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libdc1394-22 libdc1394-22-dev libdc1394-utils

echo "Installing codecs"
sudo apt-get -y install libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev
sudo apt-get -y install ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev libv4l-0 libv4l v4l-utils

echo "Installing multiprocessing libraries"
sudo apt-get -y install libtbb-dev

 diffstat docutils-common libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libblas-dev libdc1394-22-dev libilmbase-dev libjasper-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev libjs-sphinxdoc liblapack-dev
  libopenexr-dev libraw1394-dev libswscale-dev libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libv4l-dev python-docutils python-jinja2 python-roman python-sphinx python-support quilt sphinx-common swig swig2.0
  texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
 


Build Documents

you should install
texlive, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
python-sphinx
dvipng
for building documents. These are for mathematical expression using Latex and .rst file manipulation