python - OpenCV in Ubuntu 17.04

Question

I had OpenCV installed in my Ubuntu machine running Ubuntu 16.10. Recently I updated to the latest Ubuntu 17.04 and OpenCV failed to work.

I am getting the following error.

ImportError: libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to install libjasper. With the command sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev

But I am getting the error E: Unable to locate package libjasper-dev

How can I fix it ?

Answer 1

I found the answer here: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/8622

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libjasper1 libjasper-dev

References to 17.04 packages no longer work.