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Combining two answers, this now works, assuming you have a catkin workspace set up already:

$ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ros-indigo-gmapping/ros-indigo-gmapping_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src $ tar xvf ../../ros-indigo-gmapping_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz $ mv ros-indigo-gmapping-1.3.8/ gmapping $ catkin_make $ sudo cp devel/lib/gmapping/slam_gmapping* /opt/ros/indigo/lib/gmapping/

Combining two answers, this now works, assuming you have a catkin workspace set up already:

wget http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ros-indigo-gmapping/ros-indigo-gmapping_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz
$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src
$ tar xvf ../../ros-indigo-gmapping_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz
$ ../../ros-indigo-gmapping_1.3.8.orig.tar.gz   
mv ros-indigo-gmapping-1.3.8/ gmapping
$ catkin_make
$ sudo cp devel/lib/gmapping/slam_gmapping* /opt/ros/indigo/lib/gmapping/
/opt/ros/indigo/lib/gmapping/