The following steps are needed for Kinect to work properly in Ubuntu 14.04.
- Prerequisites
- OpenNI
- Kinect Sensor Module
- Possible user group tuning
Prerequisites
The necessary packages:
$ sudo apt-get install git build-essential python libusb-1.0-0-dev freeglut3-dev openjdk-7-jdk
Optional:
sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz mono-complete
OpenNI
- Check out from git:
git clone https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI.git
- Compilation:
cd OpenNi
cd Platform/Linux/CreateRedist
chmod +x RedistMaker
./RedistMaker
- Installation:
cd ../Redist/OpenNI-Bin-Dev-Linux-[xxx]
sudo ./install.sh
Kinect Sensor Module
- Check out from git:
git clone https://github.com/ph4m/SensorKinect
- Compilation:
cd OpenNi
cd Platform/Linux/CreateRedist
chmod +x RedistMaker
./RedistMaker
- Installation:
cd ../Redist/Sensor-Bin-Linux-[xxx]
sudo ./install.sh
User group tuning
Sometimes the sample programs can only run with root. In this case, there are two alternative solutions.
Solution 1:
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/55-primesense-usb.rules, and then change the owner or group. (not tested)Solution 2:
sudo adduser $USER root, then log out and log in.