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Windows libUSB Driver Install (Using Zadig) Step 1. Download Zadig Download the correct version for you operating system: ZadigXP (Windows XP, Windows Vista) Zadig (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10) (Zadig will install the required USB driver for K40 Whisperer to communicate with the Laser Cutter.
DOWNLOAD; libusb: the old driver. Not the best solution for Windows 10. Download at least one of the listed drivers; Uncompress the file whereever you want and then plugin the hardware. The operating system will search for a driver. Select the file uDMX.inf in the selected directory (of your uncompression).

2Linux
- 2.1Ubuntu/Debian
  - 2.1.3libtisch PPA
- 2.5Manual Build on Linux
3OS X
- 3.3Homebrew
4Windows
- 4.1Manual build from source

Please read this before you start

This page documents how to get started using OpenKinect. The libraries are very much in flux and this won't be the final process. This also means these instructions might be out of date with the latest commits. You may also want to take a look at the following for more information:

the github project top README (don't forget other readme files in the project tree for specific components)
the Wrappers section
the OpenKinect mailing list
the FAQ

Support

For support requests in the OpenKinect irc channel or in the mailing list, please specify the platform you are using, the version of the software you are trying to build or install, and information about the context etc. as explained here.

The adapter

The Kinect needs its own power source which is independent from the USB connection to work on a computer. The latest Xbox360 can power the Kinect directly but the older Xbox requires an adapter for that purpose. Therefore, the Kinect which is bundled with the Xbox360 doesn't include an adapter whereas the Kinect which is sold separately does. The adapter is sold here. This adapter is required to use the Kinect hardware on your computer with libfreenect.

Fakenect

It is also possible to use the Fakenect utility which is a libfreenect simulator/mock interface to run the Kinect demos without having a Kinect.

Thank you!

Linux

Ubuntu/Debian

Official packages

Starting from Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) and Debian 7 (Wheezy), Ubuntu and Debian provide official packages of libfreenect. You can install them easily in a console:

In Ubuntu 12.04 the gspca kernel driver prevent libfreenect from claiming the Kinect device in user-mode.Either remove and blacklist the module

or install a recent versions of libfreenect that can automatically detach the kernel driver by adding Florian Echtler libtisch PPA (see below) with updated libfreenect packages for Ubuntu 12.04.

The freenect device is accessible to any user belonging to the group 'plugdev'. By default, a desktop user belongs to the plugdev group but if you need to add them to the group:

then log out and log in again

NeuroDebian repository

If you want a recent version of libfreenect no matter which version of Debian or Ubuntu you use, backports of the latest release of libfreenect for all supported version of Debian and Ubuntu (namely Ubuntu Lucid(10.04), Maverick (10.10), Natty (11.04), Oneiric (11.10) and Debian Squeeze and Wheezy at the time of writing) are available on NeuroDebian repository (http://neuro.debian.net). The packages available there are created by the maintainers of the official Debian package and follows the standards of Debian/Ubuntu.

To enable the NeuroDebian repository:

Installing libfreenect is the same as before:

Make sure your user belongs to the plugdev group (The default for a desktop user) to access the device without the root privileges. If it is not the case, add them by:

and log out and log in again

libtisch PPA

An Ubuntu launchpad ppa for Lucid(10.04), Maverick (10.10), Natty (11.04), Oneiric (11.10) and Pangolin (12.04) is available at:

to use it, open a console and execute:

After that, you can use:

This will install libfreenect, the development headers, and the demo applications.

After that, you need to add yourself to the 'video' groupand log back in. The package already includes the necessary rulesfor the udev daemon so that accessing the device will be possiblefor users in the group video.

be sure to log out and back in. You don't need to reboot,just plug in the kinect device right now (if it was already connected,unplug and plug back in).

To start the demo applications use:

Problems with accessing device

In case of problems, run

which should list 3 devices

If they are not present, run

and reconnect Kinekt and `Kinect Camera` should be listed

You find all demo applications starting with the freenect- prefix.

Ubuntu Manual Install

Quick copy-paste instructions to get up-and-running instantly:

Note: If you getting an error saying apt-get cannot find libglut3, you might be on a newer version of Ubuntu that has freeglut3-* instead of libglut3-*, so your initial apt-get install would look like:

To use Kinect as a non-root user do the following:

Also make a file with rules for the Linux device manager:

Copy and paste:

Be sure to log out and back in.

If you can't access or still need root privileges to use your device: in some cases there might be conflicts between permissions of two drivers installed (libfreenect and primesense). If this is your case, try reinstalling primesense's sensor driver and keep only primesense's rules file /etc/udev/rules.d/55-primesense-usb.rules, removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/51-kinect.rules file if you created it.

Fedora

Install libfreenect:

Restart system and run:

Gentoo

Use layman to install tatsh-overlay and emerge dev-libs/libfreenect.

Get layman:

Install the overlay, unmask, and install (replace ~amd64 with ~x86 if on x86):

Add yourself to the video group

By default, only the C synchronous library and C++ library is installed.

USE flags:

audio - Enable audio support
cpp - Install the C++ header
c - Install the C synchronous library
examples - Install the examples
fakenect - Install the fakenect example
opencv - Install the OpenCV example
python - Install the Python library

Manual Build on Linux

these instruction need more work, mostly taken from README.asciidoc
Works on CentOS 5.6 x86_64

Install dependencies

For compiling, you need to have the following libs/programs installed. Note these package names seem to be geared toward Ubuntu/Debian.

APT users: (Works on Ubuntu 10.10)

For Ubuntu 13.04, use this instead (replaced libglut3 with freeglut3):

For a non-developer install of RedHat/Fedora/CentOS using yum/rpms, the following command should install most of the packages needed to retrieve, compile, & run the glview demo:

For Fedora 19 you can install the following packages to avoid manually installing lib

Install Libusb Driver Windows 10