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Install catkin from source

asked 2014-08-25 08:04:00 -0500

baxter.irt
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updated 2014-08-25 08:20:10 -0500

In the source files ( https://github.com/ros/catkin branch: groovy-devel), a bug is fixed, that is not in the PPA repository for Ubuntu 12.04 ( https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull... ). I would like to install the new version from the source code like described here: http://wiki.ros.org/catkin .

When I do "make install", catkin is installed to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share. But in ROS, still the catkin binaries from /opt/ros/groovy/bin seem to be used, the problem remains. Manually copying the files to /opt/ros did not work either. Could you explain step by step, how to install catkin from source?

Thanks and Regards, Moritz

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answered 2014-08-25 17:58:23 -0500

tfoote

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You want to use the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX Documentation: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8....

Related stack overflow posts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6... and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...

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Thanks, it worked. Unfortunately it did not solve the targeted bug, but this is another topic.

mkdir ~/catkin-download
cd ~/catkin-download
git clone https://github.com/ros/catkin --branch groovy-devel
cd catkin
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ros/groovy ./
make
sudo make install

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