# SlicerOpenCV on Linux

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/sliceropencv-on-linux/22560>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** extensions-manager\
**Created:** [March 17, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/sliceropencv-on-linux/22560 "2022-03-17T11:26:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karl-Philippe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/karl-philippe/32/14413_2.png) [@Karl-Philippe](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Karl-Philippe)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/sliceropencv-on-linux/22560/1 "2022-03-17T11:26:56Z")

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Hello,

Is the SlicerOpenCV extension available on Linux? I don’t see this extension in the extension manager of versions 4.11 and 4.13 on Linux while I see that SlicerOpenCV is available in the extension manager of Slicer 4.11 on Windows.

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/sliceropencv-on-linux/22560/2 "2022-03-17T11:41:57Z")

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SlicerOpenCV is currently [failing](https://slicer.cdash.org/viewBuildError.php?buildid=2629665) to build on Linux primarily due to a lack of Linux developers to debug the issue.

Do you need the ITKVideoBridgeOpenCV component that it contains? If not, and you just need regular OpenCV to be accessible in python then you can try `slicer.util.pip_install("opencv-python")`. That will get official OpenCV whl files from PyPI where the latest version 4.5.5.64 has manylinux whl files available. [opencv-python · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/#files)

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**Author:** ![Karl-Philippe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/karl-philippe/32/14413_2.png) [@Karl-Philippe](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Karl-Philippe)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/sliceropencv-on-linux/22560/3 "2022-03-17T12:38:26Z")

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Ok thank you, I am only planning to use OpenCV with python so this should work fine and I did not planned to use the ITKVideoBridgeOpenCV.