Installing OpenCV (or trying to)

Spontaneous Projects is a chronicle of all of my projects, a reference for me, and a way to prevent others from making the same mistakes. 

I've spent the last few days trying to install openCV, an open source Computer Vision library.

It's not designed for Lucid Puppy, but there are posts about that indicate that it is possible. I've tried following the instructions for ubuntu on OpenCV's site, and got to 68% completion, but I was unable to find exact matches of some of the packages, and I think I may have forgotten to install dependecies on another - I thought it was an optional one, but maybe not.

I then tried the process shown at Murga-linux
As I was installing .pet files the computer siezed up a little, and seemed to stop installing them, on a reboot it appears that I have corrupted xwin. This isn't exactly surprising, given that I didn't remove the old packages, or make any effort to clean up.

So it looks like I'll be reinstalling LuPu and trying again using the Murga approach, but given that I was already planning on a fresh install soon it's not really an issue.

I was also able to copy my working directory from the SSD to a USB from the command line, so it appears that it's just xwin that is corrupt - I could probably try to fix it, but a reinstall will be easier.