The best way to install librealsense/pyrealsense on Ubuntu 24

[anbarsanti]

Hi, I am looking for the best way to install librealsense/pyrealsense on Ubuntu 24 to run my D435i camera. Any way I found and tried, gives error.

Could you help?

Thank you so much.

[MartyG-RealSense]

Hi @anbarsanti The easiest way to install the librealsense SDK on Ubuntu is to build it with the libuvc backend procedure, which provides a pre-made build script called 'libuvc_installation.sh'.

The pyrealsense2 wrapper can be installed at the same time as librealsense by editing line 46 of the script to add the build flag -DBUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS:bool=true

However, the libuvc backend method typically fails when used on Ubuntu 24.04.

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/master/doc/libuvc_installation.md

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/master/scripts/libuvc_installation.sh

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If the libuvc installation method does not complete successfully then there is a similar method for building from source code with CMake called the RSUSB backend, which works similarly to libuvc. A set of instructions for the RSUSB method can be found at #9931 (comment)