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I was using Google App Engine with Python to host some backend scripts and store data in the datastore, and I need to utilize openCV for some more advanced media manipulation.
I am trying to switch over to a Google Cloud VM Platform and I am having trouble understanding how to install openCV.
Earlier today, on the VM Cloud Shell I tried:
sudo apt-get install python-opencv
which seemed to work, and after listing my python modules I got:
help> modules
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__init__.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.kernel` package has been deprecated. You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead.
"You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead.", ShimWarning)
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_collections decorator ossaudiodev test_path
_csv difflib parser tests
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_symtable gettext pyexpat uu
As you can see, cv and cv2 are listed. I then tried:
>>> from cv2 import *
and I also tried:
>>> import cv2
and both seemed to properly import the module.
However, hours later I tried to import cv2 again, and it wasn't found, so I ran a module check again and got:
help> modules
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__init__.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.kernel` package has been deprecated. You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead.
"You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead.", ShimWarning)
BaseHTTPServer base64 jinja2 sets
Bastion bdb json setuptools
CDROM binascii jsonschema sgmllib
CGIHTTPServer binhex jupyter sha
Canvas bisect jupyter_client shelve
ConfigParser bsddb jupyter_console shlex
Cookie bz2 jupyter_core shutil
DLFCN cPickle keyword signal
Dialog cProfile lib2to3 simplegeneric
DocXMLRPCServer cStringIO linecache singledispatch
FileDialog calendar linuxaudiodev singledispatch_helpers
FixTk certifi locale site
HTMLParser cgi logging sitecustomize
IN cgitb macpath six
IPython chardet macurl2path smtpd
MimeWriter chunk mailbox smtplib
Queue cmath mailcap sndhdr
ScrolledText cmd markupbase socket
SimpleDialog code markupsafe spwd
SimpleHTTPServer codecs marshal sqlite3
SimpleXMLRPCServer codeop math sre
SocketServer collections md5 sre_compile
StringIO colorama meld3 sre_constants
TYPES colorsys mercurial sre_parse
Tix commands mhlib ssl
Tkconstants compileall mimetools stat
Tkdnd compiler mimetypes statvfs
Tkinter contextlib mimify storemagic
UserDict cookielib mistune string
UserList copy mmap stringold
UserString copy_reg modulefinder stringprep
_LWPCookieJar crcmod multifile strop
_MozillaCookieJar crypt multiprocessing struct
__builtin__ csv mutex subprocess
__future__ ctypes nbconvert sunau
_abcoll curses nbformat sunaudio
_ast cythonmagic netrc supervisor
_bisect datetime new symbol
_bsddb dbhash nis sympyprinting
_codecs dbm nntplib symtable
_codecs_cn debconf notebook sys
_codecs_hk decimal ntpath sysconfig
_codecs_iso2022 decorator nturl2path syslog
_codecs_jp difflib numbers tabnanny
_codecs_kr dircache oauth2client tarfile
_codecs_tw dis opcode telnetlib
_collections distlib operator tempfile
_csv distutils optparse terminado
_ctypes doctest os termios
_ctypes_test dumbdbm os2emxpath test
_curses dummy_thread ossaudiodev test_path
_curses_panel dummy_threading parser tests
_elementtree easy_install path textwrap
_functools email pdb this
_hashlib encodings pexpect thread
_heapq ensurepip pickle threading
_hotshot errno pickleshare time
_io exceptions pickletools timeit
_json fcntl pip tkColorChooser
_locale filecmp pipes tkCommonDialog
_lsprof fileinput pkg_resources tkFileDialog
_markerlib fnmatch pkgutil tkFont
_md5 formatter platform tkMessageBox
_multibytecodec fpectl plistlib tkSimpleDialog
_multiprocessing fpformat popen2 toaiff
_osx_support fractions poplib token
_pyio ftplib posix tokenize
_random functools posixfile tornado
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audiodev io robotparser zipfile
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autoreload ipython_genutils runpy zlib
backports ipywidgets sched zmq
backports_abc itertools select
What happened to my openCV installation?
If someone knows of a full documentation help on how to properly install openCV and import it into my python scripts, please post that link! I know from Google Cloud documentation here and here that I should be able to use openCV on my VM.
It would also be helpful to have some more detailed instructions on how to setup the Dockerfile and requirements.txt files to properly use openCV. Again, this is referenced in the above linked Google Cloud documentation, but never explained in detail.
Thanks!
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The Google Cloud Shell is simply a virtual machine that is running the Google Cloud SDK. It is a quick way to run gcloud commands to interact with and manage your Google Cloud Project resources. It does not contain your actual project resources though.
The session of the Cloud Shell is only persisted while it is active, and terminates after an hour of inactivity. Therefore, importing openCV on the Cloud Shell virtual machine is completely separate from your project and is not persisted to it in any way.
In order to deploy your openCV application to App Engine, you would need to use the 'gcloud app deploy' command in the directory of your openCV app.
As an alternative to openCV, we now offer Machine Learning products which provides the ability for your application to analyze images, videos, speech, text, and more.
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