Installing Bonsai

Installing Bonsai on Windows

  1. Download Bonsai from bonsai-rx.org.
  2. Install Bonsai - Starter Pack from the package manager. The Bonsai package manager
  3. Click the Updates tab on the left side of the screen and install any available upgrades.
  4. Read http://bonsai-rx.org/docs/editor for an introduction to the user interface.

Installing Bonsai on Linux

  1. Install the Mono framework for Linux.
  2. Download the preview release Bonsai-2.5.1-preview.zip.
  3. Extract the contents of the archive into a folder and run the following command mono Bonsai.exe.
  4. Install Bonsai - Starter Pack from the package manager.

Install OpenCV (Optional)

Bonsai works with OpenCV 2.4, which you will have to download and build from source on your system.

  1. Add the earlier release repositories for libjasper: 
    sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main"
  2. Follow these instructions to build and install OpenCV 2.4 on your system. Make sure to build the 2.4 branch, or download the zip from GitHub.
  3. OpenCV installs libraries into usr/local/lib, so you may need to configure your environment using one of these options to share libraries at a system level.
  4. Download the DLL map config file for OpenCV.NET and copy it into the folder Packages/OpenCV.Net.3.3.1/lib/net40 in your local Bonsai install file to redirect dependencies to your system install.