Upgrade Pi to Raspbian to Stretch version Install OpenCV on Raspberry PI 3 with virtual environments per instructions: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/09/19/pip-install-opencv/ Couldn't get virtual environments setup, but using pip 3 install opencv-contrib-python worked! Got an error when import cv2 said ImportError: libjasper.so.1, libQtGui.so.4, and libQtTest.so.4 ran: sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev libqtgui4 libqt4-test