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2) Installing Dlib Library

Once the machine setup is done successfully as described in my previous post ("Click me!")  we are good to go to install one more dependency which Dlib. Posting a completely new post just for Dlib because I struggled and like almost I just saved my OS from crashing so it deserves. Installing with the correct command is all that is needed there are many tutorials available for this installation and more I refer more I got confused so after 3 to 4 hour of struggle finally I came up with the necessary command which will be enough to install Dlib on your machine and we can proceed further to install the face_recognition package. Below are the commands I used and work perfectly: sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py sudo python3 get-pip.py sudo pip3 install numpy sudo pip3 install scipy sudo pip3 install scikit-image sudo pip3 install dlib  sudo pip3 i