Install OpenCV 2.4.9 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

OpenCV is the most popular and advanced code library for Computer Vision related applications today, spanning from many very basic tasks (capture and pre-processing of image data) to high-level algorithms (feature extraction, motion tracking, machine learning). It is free software and provides a rich API in C, C++, Java and Python. Other wrappers are available. The library itself is platform-independent and often used for real-time image processing and computer vision.
What’s new in 2.4.9
new 3D visualization module ‘viz’
performance fixes in ‘ocl’ module
fixes in Android Camera
improved CUDA support for mobile platforms
bugfixes from community
55 reported bugs have been closed
156 pull requests have been merged
See the full ChangeLog for more information
Install OpenCV
Step 1: Make Directory
mkdir opencv

cd /opencv/
Step 2: Remove any pre-installed ffmpeg and x264
sudo apt-get -qq remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
Step 3:  Install Dependenices
As reported by kumaranbus, installing ‘libopencv-dev‘ on non nvidia graphics card messes up the drivers. As a workaround for non nvidia cards like AMD/ATI, Radeon, replace libopencv-dev below with ‘ocl-icd-libopencl1‘ which is a generic driver. Please note that I have not tried this out yet as I have no ATI/Radeon cards to test with
sudo apt-get -qq install libopencv-dev build-essential checkinstall cmake pkg-config yasm libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev python-dev python-numpy libtbb-dev libqt4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev x264 v4l-utils
- Install ffmpeg
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Step 4: Download and extract OpenCV
wget -O OpenCV-2.4.9.zip http://fossies.org/linux/misc/opencv-2.4.9.zip

unzip OpenCV-2.4.9.zip

cd opencv-2.4.9
Step 5: Begin Build Process
Note that this bit would take some time to complete
mkdir build

cd build

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D WITH_TBB=ON -D BUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON -D WITH_V4L=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -D WITH_QT=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON ..

make -j2

sudo make install

sudo sh -c ‘echo “/usr/local/lib” > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencv.conf’

sudo ldconfig

• Reboot your machine
  Step 6: Example using OpenCV
• Change directory to following location
  cd /usr/local/share/OpenCV/samples/c
• Execute following commands
  sudo chmod +x build_all.sh

sudo ./build_all.sh

./facedetect “/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml” lena.jpg
or
./facedetect –cascade=”/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml” lena.jpg