How To Install opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencv-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. opencv-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for apps which use OpenCV

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `opencv-python.x86_64`

This package contains Python bindings for the OpenCV library.

We can use yum to install opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install opencv-python.x86_64.

Install opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install opencv-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install opencv-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the opencv-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove opencv-python.x86_64

opencv-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cv.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cv.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cv.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cv2.so

References

opencv-python.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencv-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.