Attention: Answers.ros.org is deprecated as of August the 11th, 2023. Please visit robotics.stackexchange.com to ask a new question. This site will remain online in read-only mode during the transition and into the foreseeable future. Selected questions and answers have been migrated, and redirects have been put in place to direct users to the corresponding questions on Robotics Stack Exchange. Additional details are available here.

Revision history [back]

so I figured it out so in the CMakeLists.txt files of both cv_bridge and image_geometry, find package(OpenCV REQUIRED) should be find package (OpenCV 2.4.13 REQUIRED) . This is in my case as I have OpenCV 2.4.13 installed, one can replace it with any version one is using

ROS Answers is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.