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I'm trying to install Zbar but I am having an issue with ./configure:

checking linux/videodev.h usability... no
checking linux/videodev.h presence... no
checking for linux/videodev.h... no
configure: error: in `/home/pi/zbar':
configure: error: test for video support failed!
rebuild your kernel to include video4linux support or
configure --disable-video to skip building video support.

This is what I've done so far: 

# Get the latest Raspbian packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

## JPEG DEPENDENCIES    
### download and compile the JPEG library

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz    
tar xvfz jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
cd jpeg-8c
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$CONFIGURE_PREFIX
make
sudo make install

### link the libraries correctly - RASPBERRY PI ONLY

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libfreetype.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libz.so /usr/lib

### install rest of the libraries, as well as freetrype and zlib

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev

### re-install PIL
sudo pip install pillow

## V4L UTILS
# Get the source code for the V4L utilities

git clone git://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git
cd v4l-utils

# Install some packages needed to build it
sudo apt-get install autoconf gettext libtool

# Configure and build it.
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

# Load the module video0
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

I have downloaded the latest Zbar firmware from here.

Any ideas? I want to build it with video support, so deactivating it takes no sense.

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Found the solution here :

sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/include/libv4l1-videodev.h   /usr/include/linux/videodev.h

But I needed more dependencies (solution found here) :

sudo apt-get install libperl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

Then I had to install pygtk but it seems needing python-gobject-dev to compile :

sudo apt-get install python-gobject-dev

Downloaded the latest stable release of PyGTK here and installed it.

and then I tried in Zbar directory : ./configure --without-imagemagick --without-qt

I can't find a way to install ImageMagick on my Rpi then I had to putt --without-imagemagick but then the prompt told me that the zbarimg file scanner will *NOT* be built...

Well with this I could FINALLY install it !

Maybe I'm going to use Picamera library with QRtools ...

EDIT :

This should work and it is EASIER to install Zbar !

sudo apt-get install python-qrtools
sudo apt-get install libzbar-dev
sudo pip install zbar
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