Installing Hector_Navigation and Ceres_Catkin

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Hi! I am trying to create a robot car that can autonomously drive using RPLidar A1 and Hector Slam. I have installed both packages and read that people are using the hector_navigation package to have their robot car autonomously drive to a destination goal. (https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-p...)

I tried to clone the hector_navigation repository (noetic devel) but got an error when I did the catkin_make command. The error was that I was missing the cere_catkin package. I was able to find the ceres_catkin package at this link: https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-p....

I once again clone this repository and use the catkin_make command. However, I got another error stating that I was missing the simple_catkin package. I was able to find the simple_catkin package at this link: https://github.com/catkin/catkin_simple.

Again, I clone this repository and used catkin_make command. This time, everything looked like it worked! So I went back and clone the ceres_catkin repository and used catkin_make command. However, I ran into another error during the process. The error was:

Invoking "make -j2 -l2" failed

Could anyone please help me to figure out how to get the hector_navigation package? I feel like I am currently in a goose chase. Thank you!!!

In case anyone needs the full code from my terminal here it is:

kenny@kenny-virtual-machine:~/catkin_ws$ catkin_make
Base path: /home/kenny/catkin_ws
Source space: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/src
Build space: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/build
Devel space: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/devel
Install space: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/install
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#### Running command: "cmake /home/kenny/catkin_ws/src -DCATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX=/home/kenny/catkin_ws/devel -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/kenny/catkin_ws/install -G Unix Makefiles" in "/home/kenny/catkin_ws/build"
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-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/devel
-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/noetic
-- This workspace overlays: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/noetic
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.8.5", minimum required is "3") 
-- Using PYTHON_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/python3
-- Using Debian Python package layout
-- Using empy: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/em.py
-- Using CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING: ON
-- Call enable_testing()
-- Using CATKIN_TEST_RESULTS_DIR: /home/kenny/catkin_ws/build/test_results
-- Forcing gtest/gmock from source, though one was otherwise available.
-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/googletest': gtests will be built
-- Found gmock sources under '/usr/src/googletest': gmock will be built
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3 (found version "3.8.5") 
-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests3
-- catkin 0.8.8
-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on
-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- ~~  traversing 16 packages in topological order:
-- ~~  - catkin_simple
-- ~~  - ceres_catkin
-- ~~  - hector_slam (metapackage)
-- ~~  - hector_slam_launch
-- ~~  - hector_map_tools
-- ~~  - hector_nav_msgs
-- ~~  - hector_geotiff
-- ~~  - hector_geotiff_plugins
-- ~~  - hector_marker_drawing
-- ~~  - hector_compressed_map_transport
-- ~~  - rplidar_ros
-- ~~  - hector_imu_attitude_to_tf
-- ~~  - hector_imu_tools
-- ~~  - hector_map_server
-- ~~  - hector_trajectory_server
-- ~~  - hector_mapping
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'catkin_simple'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(catkin_simple)
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'ceres_catkin'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(ceres_catkin)
-- +++ processing catkin metapackage: 'hector_slam'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(hector_slam/hector_slam)
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'hector_slam_launch'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(hector_slam/hector_slam_launch)
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'hector_map_tools'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(hector_slam/hector_map_tools)
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'hector_nav_msgs'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(hector_slam/hector_nav_msgs)
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
-- hector_nav_msgs: 0 messages, 5 services
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'hector_geotiff'
-- ==> ...