After the update of the library OpenNI from de version 1.5 to 2.0, it doesn't have support for the device Microsoft Kinect on Linux due licensing reasons . However, there are a OpenNI 2 binding that you can use the OpenKinect's freenect driver to use the OpenNI 2.0 with kinect on linux. The instalation is simple and you can use the library NITE 2, to get the user skeleton, without problem. Ok, let's do it: