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I was wondering if it was possible to install a ROS package from source globally via catkin_make install? i.e., I would want the package installed into the /opt/ros/indigo/... location instead of the catkin workspace. The use case is for a package not in the build farm that we wanted all users on our robot to have access to.
You can change the install location as for any CMake project ( http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.... ) by passing:
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/your/install/path
This had been working for me historically. However, it seems as of late catkin is not respecting the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option. Is this a regression? I'm running the latest version of Indigo as of 4/24/15.
OK. I have this sorted out now. It seems as though you need to specify the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX when calling the install target instead of at compile time, which is what used to work. No big deal, just unexpected.
/opt/ros/indigo is managed by the package manager, and it may overwrite files and directories there at any time, so I don't recommend installing packages into /opt/ros/indigo. (conversely, if the package manager finds files there that it isn't managing, it may fail to install future packages.)
As an alternative, you can create a global overlay that isn't managed by the package manager, and install packages from source there. /opt/ros/indigo_overlay or /opt/ros/indigo_local might be a good choices.
We've used /opt/ros/indigo/local in the past for this type of thing, but there isn't a strong convention around it.
Asked: 2014-08-08 08:59:16 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 08 '14
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