In order to get dlib with Python bindings to successfully install on your Raspberry Pi, you need to update your system to reclaim as much memory as possible as well as update your swap file size. In fact, if you tried to compile dlib on the Raspberry Pi, your compile likely bombed out with an error. This 1GB of RAM is responsible for all system operations, displaying the GUI/desktop, and handling our compile.
The Raspberry Pi 3 ships with only 1GB of RAM.
Since Raspbian, the operating system that (most) Raspberry Pi users run is Debian-based (as is Ubuntu), the same install instructions can be used for Raspbian as Ubuntu… Click here to download the source code to this postĪ few weeks ago I did a blog post on how to install the dlib library on Ubuntu and macOS.
