topic Re: Installing opencv-python on DBX in Machine Learning

Installing opencv-python on DBX

drii_cavalcanti — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:40:16 GMT

Hi everyone,

I was wondering how I can install such a basic Python package on Databricks without running into conflict issues or downgrading to a runtime version lower than 15.

Specs:
The worker type is g4dn.xlarge [T4].
The runtime is 16.4 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.5.2, Scala 2.13).

Re: Installing opencv-python on DBX

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:05:50 GMT

Hi @drii_cavalcanti ,

You encountered this issue because opencv-python depends on packages that still require numpy in version lower than 2.
You need to reinstall numpy to supported version and then try once again installing library. You can do it using following command:

%pip install opencv-python numpy==1.26.4 --force-reinstall

I've tested it on the same DBR and cluster as your and as you can see below, it worked:

Re: Installing opencv-python on DBX

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:24:57 GMT

Hi @drii_cavalcanti ,

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