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Ari Smith
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Amazing solutions for the importerror: libsm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory error

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/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cv2/__init__.py in <module>()
  7 
  8 # make IDE's (PyCharm) autocompletion happy
 ----> 9 from .cv2 import *
  10 
  11 # wildcard import above does not import "private" variables like __version__
 
 ImportError: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

occurred when I import OpenCV, using import cv2. I’ve tried to fix it for some days but have not resolved it yet. Can someone suggest a relevant solution to fix the importerror: libsm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory issue? Much appreciate your support.

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    The cause: It’s possible that the issue is with your python-opencv version.

    The solution: You can fix this error by having it as the first two lines of the script:

    !pip install opencv-python
!apt update && apt install -y libsm6 libxext6
!apt-get install -y libxrender-dev
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  2. Add sudo to your command line. To get it installed, I did the following: 

    sudo apt-get install libsm6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1

    Then, did this (optional! Maybe you won’t use it. 

    sudo python3 -m pip install opencv-contrib-python

    Finally, it was done!

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