How To Install libopencv-photo406 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libopencv-photo406 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libopencv-photo406 is computer vision computational photography library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopencv-photo406 on Debian 12.

What is libopencv-photo406

libopencv-photo406 is:

This package contains the OpenCV (Open Computer Vision) computational photography runtime libraries.

The Open Computer Vision Library is a collection of algorithms and sample code for various computer vision problems. The library is compatible with IPL (Intel’s Image Processing Library) and, if available, can use IPP (Intel’s Integrated Performance Primitives) for better performance.

OpenCV provides low level portable data types and operators, and a set of high level functionalities for video acquisition, image processing and analysis, structural analysis, motion analysis and object tracking, object recognition, camera calibration and 3D reconstruction.

There are three methods to install libopencv-photo406 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libopencv-photo406 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libopencv-photo406 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libopencv-photo406

Install libopencv-photo406 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libopencv-photo406 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libopencv-photo406

Install libopencv-photo406 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libopencv-photo406 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopencv-photo406

How To Uninstall libopencv-photo406 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libopencv-photo406 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopencv-photo406

Uninstall libopencv-photo406 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopencv-photo406 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopencv-photo406

Remove libopencv-photo406 Configurations and Data

To remove libopencv-photo406 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopencv-photo406

Remove libopencv-photo406 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libopencv-photo406 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopencv-photo406

Dependencies

libopencv-photo406 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopencv-photo406 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.