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Electric eigen dependency

asked 2011-09-23 04:45:20 -0600

Aditya
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I successfully installed ros/electric in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) using

sudo apt-get install ros-electric-ros-base

However electric now uses eigen3 and it was not installed during electric installation (I earlier had eigen2 installed). Aptitude search shows following:

agadre@riverine:~$ aptitude search eigen

i libeigen2-dev - lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra
p libeigen2-doc - eigen2 API docmentation
p libeigen3-dev - lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra
p ros-electric-eigen - Eigen Library
p ros-unstable-eigen - Eigen Library

Why was ros-electric-eigen (and by extension libeigen3-dev) not installed? Currently default eigen in Ubuntu 11.04 is libeigen2-dev.

This same question also extends to opencv-2.3.

Thanks!

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answered 2011-09-23 05:25:35 -0600

kwc
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ros-electric-base does not come with opencv nor Eigen. If you want opencv, install ros-electric-vision-opencv as well.

"ros-electric-eigen" is a backwards compatibility package; it mainly just forwards compile flags to the system dependency for eigen. The actual eigen3 library with electric is libeigen3-dev