Pylon SDK Installation and Setup Guide#

The guide provides step-by-step instructions to install and configure the Basler pylonviewer tool on a Linux system.

1. Download the SDK#

Download the latest Pylon SDK (preferably the Debian installer) from the official Basler website:

Go to: https://www.baslerweb.com/en/downloads/software/

2. Extract the Installer#

After downloading the archive (example: pylon-X.X_linux-x86_64_debs.tar.gz), extract it:

tar -xvf pylon-X.X_linux-x86_64_debs.tar.gz

3. Install Dependencies#

Install required dependencies:

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0

4. Install Pylon SDK Packages#

Install the .deb package:

sudo dpkg -i pylon_X.X-deb0_amd64.deb

5. Verify Additional Instructions#

Refer to the INSTALL file included in the extracted SDK folder for any updated steps or additional notes.

6. Run the pylonviewer#

/opt/pylon/bin/pylonviewer

Troubleshooting#

For Basler USB Cameras if you face issue with the detection of the camera, you can perform the following steps

sudo apt install v4l-utils
v4l2-ctl --list-devices
stat /dev/bus/usb
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
# Run the USB setup script
/opt/pylon/share/pylon/setup-usb.sh
sudo reboot