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Answering my own question : problem between chair and keyboard : was running on a machine without ROS environment setup, so my shell wasn't looking in /opt/ros/kinetic/bin ros-kinetic-catkin package is installed and provices /opt/ros/kinetic/bin/catkin_make, which is the one I want.

the Ubuntu 'catkin' package is just a lure…

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