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To get things started, I've decided to document the process of  getting OpenCV to work on Linux. More specifically, to get it to work on Code::Blocks. To do this I began by downloading the 2.4.13 release of OpenCV from here . My choice of 2.4.13 was because following the procedures mentioned in this post with 3.1.0(the latest release at the time) returned some weird error when running 'make' from the terminal. After downloading the .tar file, I proceeded to unzip it by running the following in the terminal. unzip opencv-2.4.13.zip Then, I proceeded to make a build directory and opened the directory in the terminal as follows. cd opencv-2.4.13 mkdir build cd build At this point the terminal should look something like shown below. Now from here, we have to start configuring the cmake files. Generally, the configuration is done by running a command of the following format in the terminal.  cmake [optional parameters] <path to the OpenCV source directory> I...