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What you ask is the default behaviour of packages in workspaces: whatever you place in your workspace will take precedence over what you installed using apt-get.
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What you ask is the default behaviour of packages in workspaces: whatever you place in your workspace will take precedence over what you installed using apt-get.
Edit: taking this a bit further: your Catkin workspace essentially overlays the /opt/ros/$distro directory (which basically is an install space).
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So is there a way to have a locally installed version of the package in my workspace and use it somehow ignoring the preinstalled one?
What you ask is the default behaviour of packages in workspaces: whatever you place in your workspace will take precedence over what you installed using apt-get.
Edit: taking this a bit further: your Catkin workspace essentially overlays the /opt/ros/$distro directory (which basically is an install space).
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