Running OpenCV headlessly in Arch Linux

nospam@example.com (Fanjita) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:33:41 +0100

I've been experimenting with trying to get a usable OpenCV environment up and running on my Raspberry Pi, so that I can experiment with using it for machine vision. The catch is that I don't have a decent monitor and keyboard hooked up to the Pi, and I'm using Arch Linux - so most available tutorials aren't quite applicable to me. This blog post describes what I've done so far to get up and running using remoted X-Windows to get the job done.

Since I have an iMac as my main development machine, I already have a decent X server built in. I've happily used that in the past to remote VirtualBox virtual machine desktops from Debian, and it's a convenient and efficient way of running graphical apps on a headless server. So, that seems the logical way to go here.

The first step was to get a basic X client up and running on the Pi. This was probably the hardest part, and involved a lot of searching around, via both pacman and Google. Below are what should be the minimal set of steps to get this working, to save future readers from the trouble...
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