Linux Distribution

Using pre-build packages

Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 provides installation packages for Intel X86/AMD64-based Debian distributions in dpkg format for Ubuntu 16/18/20/22 LTS.
The Realsense DKMS kernel drivers package (librealsense2-dkms) supports Ubuntu LTS kernels 4.4, 4.8, 4.10, 4.13, 4.15, 4.18*, 5.0*, 5.3*, 5.4, 5.13, 5.15, 5.19, 6.2 and 6.5. Please refer to Ubuntu Kernel Release Schedule for further details.

Configuring and building from the source code

While we strongly recommend to use DKMS package whenever possible, there are certain cases where installing and patching the system manually is necessary:

• Using SDK with non-LTS Ubuntu kernel versions: **4.16 **

• Integration of user-specific patches/modules with librealsense SDK.

• Adjusting the patches for alternative kernels/distributions.

The steps are described in Linux manual installation guide

Installing the packages:

• Register the server’s public key:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -sSf https://librealsense.intel.com/Debian/librealsense.pgp | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/librealsense.pgp > /dev/null

• Make sure apt HTTPS support is installed: sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

• Add the server to the list of repositories:

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/librealsense.pgp] https://librealsense.intel.com/Debian/apt-repo `lsb_release -cs` main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librealsense.list
sudo apt-get update

• Install the libraries (see section below if upgrading packages):
  sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dkms
sudo apt-get install librealsense2-utils
  The above two lines will deploy librealsense2 udev rules, build and activate kernel modules, runtime library and executable demos and tools.

• Optionally install the developer and debug 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.

Reconnect the Intel RealSense depth camera and run: realsense-viewer to verify the installation.

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

Upgrading the Packages:

Refresh the local packages cache by invoking:
sudo apt-get update

Upgrade all the installed packages, including librealsense with:
sudo apt-get upgrade

To upgrade selected packages only a more granular approach can be applied:
sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install <package1 package2 ...>
E.g:
sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install  librealsense2-utils librealsense2-dkms

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
librealsense2-gl	GLSL extension module runtime and configuration file	librealsense2
librealsense2-gl-dev	GLSL development header files and symbolic link	librealsense2
librealsense2-gl-dbg	GLSL debug symbols required for debugging purposes	librealsense2

Note The packages include binaries and configuration files only. Use the github repository to obtain the source code.