Intel® RealSense™ Cross Platform API
Intel Realsense Cross-platform API
Linux Distribution

Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 provides installation packages in dpkg format for Ubuntu 16 LTS*.
* The Realsense DKMS kernel drivers package (librealsense2-dkms) supports Ubuntu LTS kernels 4.4, 4.10 and 4.13.

To build the project from source, please follow steps described ./installation.md "here"

Installing the packages:

Uninstalling the Packages:

Important Removing Debian package is allowed only when no other installed packages directly refer to it. For example removing librealsense2-udev-rules requires librealsense2 to be removed first.

Remove a single package with:
sudo apt-get --purge <package-name>
Remove all RealSense™ SDK-related packages with:
dpkg -l | grep "realsense" | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs sudo dpkg --purge

Package Details:

The packages and their respective content are listed below:

Name Content Depends on
librealsense2-udev-rules Configures RealSense device permissions on kernel level -
librealsense2-dkms DKMS package for Depth cameras-specific kernel extensions librealsense2-udev-rules
librealsense2 RealSense™ SDK runtime (.so) and configuration files librealsense2-udev-rules
librealsense2-utils Demos and tools available as a part of RealSense™ SDK librealsense2
librealsense2-dev Header files and symbolic link for developers librealsense2
librealsense2-dbg Debug symbols for developers librealsense2

Note The packages include binaries and configuration files only. Use the github repository to obtain the source code.