darknet No package ‘opencv‘ found

I just found out that the OpenCV package that installed from sudo apt install libopencv-dev is opencv4 which is located in \usr\include. And under that opencv4 folder, guess what we have? Yes, the opencv2 folder.

So to overcome this problem when you change the OPENCV= 1 on Makefile and show up **fatal error** opencv2/core/version.hpp: No such file or directory

All the thing you need to do is just change on the line 45, 46

45 LDFLAGS+= `pkg-config --libs opencv` -lstdc++
46 COMMON+= `pkg-config --cflags opencv` 

to

LDFLAGS+= `pkg-config --libs opencv4` -lstdc++
COMMON+= `pkg-config --cflags opencv4` 

Conclusion: Just install OpenCV by sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev, change opencv on line 45, 46 on Makefile to opencv4.

No package 'opencv' found · Issue #2280 · pjreddie/darknet · GitHub