How Do I Resolve Debug/release Conflict After Installing Opencv Under Anaconda

Tried to get started with OpenCV under Python today, although I have no experience with the former and very little experience with the latter. Since I am inexperienced, I followed

Solution 1:

You might want to install OpenCV via conda packages which downloads the binaries and does all the configuration for you. Open a command window (cmd.exe) and type:

conda update conda
conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/menpo opencv

BUT, since you are starting I would recommend you to use Python 3. If you prefer not to do a fresh installation, you can create a conda environment with python 3.4 which runs independently and will not mesh up any of your installations:

conda create -n OpenCVenv python=3.4

To activate this environment you will need to run the following command every time you want to use opencv or install new packages

activate OpenCVenv

Once you have activated the environment you can install opencv3:

conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/menpo opencv3

Notice that if you want to install the different packages such as Spyder you can do so:

conda install spyder

That's because Spyder is supported within Anaconda. For example you can install all the packages included en Anaconda

conda install anaconda