OpenCV can't find the right version of CUDA

Question

I installed OpenCV 3.0.0 but I'm having troubles any C++ or Python code using OpenCV. For testing, I went into the directory opencv-3.0.0/samples and ran cmake to build the samples. I got the following error:

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message): Could NOT find CUDA: Found unsuitable version "5.5", but required is exact version "7.0" (found /usr)

However, I'm pretty sure that I have the CUDA 7.0 installed and I verified by getting the following output from nvcc --version on the command line:

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation Built on Mon_Feb_16_22:59:02_CST_2015 Cuda compilation tools, release 7.0, V7.0.27

Why might OpenCV think that I got the wrong version installed? Is there a workaround for this?

Answer 1

Upgrading from CMake 2.8 to CMake 3.2.2 seems to have solved this particular issue.

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