Ubuntu Manual Install OpenKinect

Quick copy-paste instructions to get up-and-running instantly:

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake libglut3-dev pkg-config build-essential libxmu-dev libxi-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
git clone git://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.git
cd libfreenect
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib64/
sudo glview

Note: If you getting an error saying apt-get cannot find libglut3, you might be on a newer version of Ubuntu that has freeglut3-* instead of libglut3-*, so your initial apt-get install would look like:

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake freeglut3-dev pkg-config build-essential libxmu-dev libxi-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

To use Kinect as a non-root user do the following:

sudo adduser $USER video

Also make a file with rules for the Linux device manager:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/51-kinect.rules