Unable to locate package libopencv-dev

Question

I'm running 12.04 desktop on a persistence USB pendrive. I Googled around, but answers say something like:

Ubuntu 12.04 provides a package of OpenCV 2.3.1 that you can easily install by typing:

sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev

But it does not work for me.

$ sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libopencv-dev

The following commands each returned successful results:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake 

Solution

That package is available from the Universe repository, if apt can't find it this probably means you are missing that repo in your sources.

Take a look at the sources file:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

And make sure it includes these lines

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted universe   
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise restricted main multiverse universe

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted universe  
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates restricted main multiverse universe

Note that to change this file you'll need root permissions, e.g.:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

After adding these lines run apt-get update and try to install the package again.

Comments

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