How to install openCV 2.4.13 for Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I have tried a lot of online posts to install opencv but they are not working for Ubuntu 16.04. May anyone please give me the steps to install openCV 2.4.13 on it?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git pkg-config
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev libtiff4-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
sudo pip install numpy
sudo apt-get install python-opencv

Then you can have a try:

$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:30:19) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cv
>>> import cv2