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.

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 here to manually install the kernel patches

Installing the packages:

• Add Intel server to the list of repositories :
  echo 'deb http://realsense-hw-public.s3.amazonaws.com/Debian/apt-repo xenial main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/realsense-public.list
  It is recommended to backup /etc/apt/sources.list.d/realsense-public.list file in case of an upgrade.

• Register the server's public key :
  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key C8B3A55A6F3EFCDE

• Refresh the list of repositories and packages available :
  sudo apt-get update

• In order to run demos install:
  sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dkms
sudo apt-get install librealsense2-utils
  The above two lines will deploy librealsense2 udev rules, kernel drivers, runtime library and executable demos and tools. Reconnect the Intel RealSense depth camera and run: realsense-viewer

• Developers shall install additional packages:
  sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dev
sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dbg
  With dev package installed, you can compile an application with librealsense using g++ -std=c++11 filename.cpp -lrealsense2 or an IDE of your choice.

  Verify that the kernel is updated :
  modinfo uvcvideo | grep "version:" should include realsense string

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.