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The answer is here. Basically PCL and ROS have incompatible versions of Kinect drivers. You can have one or the other installed but not both. If you want to use PCL with ROS you have to use the ROS version of PCL which is very limited compared to trunk PCL as far as I understand (I have not tested it myself).

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