How to install openCV on python3 file rather than python2.7?

Question

I find there is only python2.7 folder in ~/.local/lib (see below). When I use openCV, I must use python **.py . But I want to us python3 **.py to us openCV.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

just use:

pip3 install opencv-python

to install opencv to your python3 site-packages

https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/

this will allow your python3 scripts to use the opencv pkg

if you don't want to use pip, seems there is more info here:

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