Installation

SimpleCV can be installed on all major operating systems. As it makes the computer vision code simple by providing a wrapper over existing libraries, it has many dependencies. Hence, during installation, all those dependencies need to be taken care of for making SimpleCV ready to run. The process of installation varies in different operating systems. The dependencies for SimpleCV are shown in Figure 1.

If you prefer to install SimpleCV in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

To update the ‘PATH’ variables, it is required that you close the current command prompt and reopen it. Then execute the following commands: