Surfing the web I found a nice collection of OpenCV installation scripts for Linux distros. Unfortunately it did not have a script for latest 2.4.3 on Ubuntu. As a result I forked the repo and added it. Have a look:
https://github.com/DmitrySandalov/Install-OpenCV
OpenCV 2.4.3 install script for Ubuntu 12.10
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