Error while installing OpenCV in pycharm - python 3.5.3

Question

I am getting error while installing OpenCV package from project interpreter.

Error occurred: Non zero exit code(1)

When I execute command, pip install cv2 ..it gives error as,

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cv2(from versions: )No matching distribution found for OpenCV

Please help me solve this error.

Answer 1

The package name is actually opencv-python. So you should do:

pip install opencv-python

However, the package is only available on pypi for version 3, not for version 2. I think the misunderstanding could come from when you are actually importing the package you do:

import cv2

But that is actually not the package name on pypi. See the documentation on pypi for more details.