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*.

Note Kernel 4.16 introduces some non-compatible modification to uvcvideo and media subsystem. We work to support it in future releases, but at this time the support is scoped up to kernel 4.15 and the affected users are requested to downgrade the kernel version.

To build the project from source, or in case of Ubuntu 18 (Bionic Beaver) with kernel 4.15 please follow steps described ./installation.md "here" to manually install the kernel patches

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.