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On Ubuntu, some packages are installable via Ubuntu packages (i.e., apt-get, synaptic), so you could try that first. If no Ubuntu package is available, you can download the source from the repository, put it in a subdirectory of your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, and compile with with rosmake. That's generally all you need to do.

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