OpenCV-Python installation - CMake error missing vtkRenderingOpenGL [Ubuntu 16.04]

Question

I'm trying to install Python-OpenCV in Python3 on my LTS system following this guide.

When I try to run CMake:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=~/opencv_contrib-3.1.0/modules -D PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=~/.virtualenvs/cv/bin/python -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON ..

I get the following error:

-- Detected version of GNU GCC: 54 (504)
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (found suitable version "1.2.8", minimum required is "1.2.3") 
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (found version "1.2.8") 
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-base-1.0'
--   No package 'gstreamer-base-1.0' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-video-1.0'
--   No package 'gstreamer-video-1.0' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-app-1.0'
--   No package 'gstreamer-app-1.0' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-riff-1.0'
--   No package 'gstreamer-riff-1.0' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-pbutils-1.0'
--   No package 'gstreamer-pbutils-1.0' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-base-0.10'
--   No package 'gstreamer-base-0.10' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-video-0.10'
--   No package 'gstreamer-video-0.10' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-app-0.10'
--   No package 'gstreamer-app-0.10' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-riff-0.10'
--   No package 'gstreamer-riff-0.10' found
-- Checking for module 'gstreamer-pbutils-0.10'
--   No package 'gstreamer-pbutils-0.10' found
-- Checking for module 'libdc1394-2'
--   No package 'libdc1394-2' found
-- Checking for module 'libdc1394'
--   No package 'libdc1394' found
-- Looking for linux/videodev.h
-- Looking for linux/videodev.h - not found
-- Looking for linux/videodev2.h
-- Looking for linux/videodev2.h - found
-- Looking for sys/videoio.h
-- Looking for sys/videoio.h - not found
-- Checking for module 'libavresample'
--   No package 'libavresample' found
-- Looking for libavformat/avformat.h
-- Looking for libavformat/avformat.h - found
-- Looking for ffmpeg/avformat.h
-- Looking for ffmpeg/avformat.h - not found
-- Checking for module 'libgphoto2'
--   No package 'libgphoto2' found
-- found IPP (ICV version): 9.0.1 [9.0.1]
-- at: /home/matt/opencv-3.1.0/3rdparty/ippicv/unpack/ippicv_lnx
-- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing:  DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE) 
-- To enable PlantUML support, set PLANTUML_JAR environment variable or pass -DPLANTUML_JAR=<filepath> option to cmake
-- Found PythonInterp: /home/matt/.virtualenvs/cv/bin/python (found suitable version "3.5.2", minimum required is "2.7") 
-- Found PythonInterp: /home/matt/.virtualenvs/cv/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.5.2", minimum required is "3.4") 
-- Could NOT find JNI (missing:  JAVA_AWT_LIBRARY JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY JAVA_INCLUDE_PATH JAVA_INCLUDE_PATH2 JAVA_AWT_INCLUDE_PATH) 
-- Could NOT find Matlab (missing:  MATLAB_MEX_SCRIPT MATLAB_INCLUDE_DIRS MATLAB_ROOT_DIR MATLAB_LIBRARIES MATLAB_LIBRARY_DIRS MATLAB_MEXEXT MATLAB_ARCH MATLAB_BIN) 
CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/cmake/vtk-7.1/vtkModuleAPI.cmake:120 (message):
  Requested modules not available:

    vtkRenderingOpenGL
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/lib/cmake/vtk-7.1/VTKConfig.cmake:89 (vtk_module_config)
  cmake/OpenCVDetectVTK.cmake:6 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:597 (include)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/matt/opencv-3.1.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/matt/opencv-3.1.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

I've followed the guide completely up until this point so I'm not sure what is wrong.

I've looked around to try and fix the missing package vtkRenderingOpenGL and followed this post.

I'm sure that I've installed this in the past and so unsurprisingly I get:

sudo apt -y install freeglut3-dev

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
freeglut3-dev is already the newest version (2.8.1-2).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.

Any and all help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Taking advice given from the OpenCV community forum ( post ).

Add this to CMake options:

-D WITH_VTK=OFF -D BUILD_opencv_viz=OFF

"opencv_viz is the only opencv module, that depends on vtk, and you cannot use it from python"

Therefore it is fine to just disable it all together and after doing so CMake completes.

Answer 2

My advice is: uninstall your ffmpeg and install an older one. For me, I installed opencv3.2.0 with ffmpeg4.0, and I got the error:

'No package 'libavresample' found'

and so on. Now, I change my ffmpeg to ffmpeg2.7.2, and it works for me.