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I managed to solve this problem. The issue was to do with the permissions given to the user by the system admin. I asked the lab manager (who has sudo access) to give permission to my user ID to access the git cloned packages. Then I repeated these steps

$ cd catkin_ws/src
$ git clone https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense.git
$ cd realsense
$ git checkout 1.8.0
$ cd catkin_ws && catkin_make -j2

and the camera started working.

I managed to solve this problem. The issue was to do with the permissions given to the user by the system admin. I asked the lab manager (who has sudo access) to give permission to my user ID to access the git cloned packages. Then I repeated these stepssteps inside the second workspace that I created inside the Turtlebot.

$ cd catkin_ws/src
$ git clone https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense.git
$ cd realsense
$ git checkout 1.8.0
$ cd catkin_ws && catkin_make -j2

and the camera started working.working. Hope this helps anyone else who has the same issue.