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I had a similar problem and found a more robust solution that won't break your kinetic install.

In order to get kinetic to publish an indigo friendly visualization msgs marker, you can simply download the indigo branch of the common msgs git repo: https://github.com/ros/common_msgs/tree/indigo-devel

Then copy the visualization_msgs folder into your catkin workspace, do a catkin_make, and then your kinetic branch will publish an indigo compliant message (because your workspace packages override your installed packages)

To go back to the standard kinetic format, simply remove the visualization_msgs package from your workspace, delete build/ and devel/, then catkin_make again. No need to permanently break your kinetic install.