Install Intel Realsense and Python Setup in 2022

Step 1: Search for IntelRealSense github

• https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense

Step 2: Click the tag => release => latest

• https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/releases
• Click the latest tag (2.51.1 on Oct 9, 2022) and install the SDK on linux
• https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/master/doc/distribution_linux.md

Step 3: Register the server’s public key and add server to the list of repositories

Step 4: Install the libraries and the developer and debug packages

• sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dkms
• sudo apt-get install librealsense2-utils
• sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dev
• sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dbg

Step 5: Reconnect the Intel RealSense Depth Camera (D435i) and run:

• realsense-viewer

Step 6: Download/Clone librealsense github repo:

• git clone https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense.git

Step 7: Install the core packages required to build librealsense binaries and the affected kernel modules

• sudo apt-get install git libssl-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev pkg-config libgtk-3-dev
• sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev at

Step 8: Run the top level CMake command with additional FLAG

• cd librealsense
• mkdir build && cd build
• cmake ../ -DFORCE_RSUSB_BACKEND=true -DBUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS=true -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=true -DBUILD_GRAPHICAL_EXAMPLES=true
• make -j4
  • this step will take 20 minutes
• sudo make install

Step 9: Test a Python example

• cd librealsense/wrapper/python/examples
• python export_ply_example.py
• Note: you may need to import pyrealsense2.pyrealsense2 as rs