Installing Kinect on Ubuntu (A full guide)

1) sudo apt-get install libglut3-dev build-essential libusb-1.0-0-dev git-core

2) mkdir ~/kinect && cd ~/kinect

3) git clone https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI.git

4) cd OpenNI/Platform/Linux-x86/Build

5) make && sudo make install

6) cd ~/kinect/

7) git clone https://github.com/boilerbots/Sensor.git

8) cd Sensor

9) git checkout kinect

10) cd Platform/Linux-x86/Build

11) make && sudo make install

12) go to this page at openNI to download the latest NITE release for your platform:NITE download page or for the impatient:
32-bit
64-bit

13) Save the NITE tarball to ~/kinect and untar it

14) cd ~/kinect/NITE/Nite-1.3.0.17/Data

15) Open Sample-User.xml,Sample-Scene.xml and Sample-Tracking.xml and replace the existing License line with the line below: NOTE: this is case sensitive!

< vendor="PrimeSense" key="0KOIk2JeIBYClPWVnMoRKn5cdY4=">

16) Repear step 15 and replace the existing MapOutputMode line with the line below in all 3 files.

< xres="640" yres="480" fps="30">

19) sudo niLicense PrimeSense 0KOIk2JeIBYClPWVnMoRKn5cdY4=

20) cd ~/kinect/NITE/Nite-1.3.0.17/

21) sudo ./install.bash

22) make && sudo make install

23) cd ~/kinect/NITE/Nite-1.3.0.17/Samples/Bin

24) sudo adduser YOURNAME video

25) nano /usr/etc/primesense/XnVHandGenerator/Nite.ini by uncommenting the two config parameters it contains

26) sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/51-kinect.rules

# ATTR{product}=="Xbox NUI Motor"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", ATTR{idProduct}=="02b0", MODE="0666"
# ATTR{product}=="Xbox NUI Audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ad", MODE="0666"
# ATTR{product}=="Xbox NUI Camera"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ae", MODE="0666"

27) sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

28) cd ~kinect/Nite-1.3.0.17/Samples/Bin/

29) ./Sample-PointViewer and PLAY