Make use of 3rd party packages.

asked 2015-02-11 06:22:12 -0600

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updated 2015-02-11 07:01:41 -0600

gvdhoorn
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Hi guys.. I am a bit new with ROS, and I am struggling with making use of a 3rd party package. namely flir_ptu_driver.

I am not sure how to even make use of it. I tried creating a workspace, and git clone it into the SRC file. but when i performed catkin_make and catkin_make install I received error messages saying

add the installation prefix of "serial" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "serial_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. if "serial" provides a separate development packages SDK, be sure it has been installed.

I am not sure what it means but hope some you guys could help guide through the setup phase of this ros stacks, or just in general.

I found one in the tutorial, but it seemed like it was more focused on a certain kind of stack, and not an "all-purpose" stack installation.

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Have you followed the introductory tutorials? They should give you at least some more insight into how things work with pkgs.

gvdhoorn ( 2015-02-11 06:31:06 -0600 )edit

I understand your concern.. yes I have been followed the introductory tutorial, and I know the mistake must be something very silly.. i've tried so many different things.. That i think i might have mixed them together.. This how my workspace is here: http://tinyurl.com/q9v9w92

215 ( 2015-02-11 06:37:39 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-02-11 06:59:28 -0600

gvdhoorn
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The error you are seeing tells you that flir_ptu_driver cannot find one of its dependencies, in this case the serial package.

Depending on what you actually intend to do, you have two options:

install the binary release of flir_ptu_driver: something like sudo apt-get install ros-DISTRO-flir-ptu-driver should work. All dependencies should also be automatically installed for you this way.
make sure you have all dependencies installed before trying to catkin_make the sources: you can do this with rosdep, like so (see also the rosdep documentation):
```
rosdep install --from-paths /path/to/your/catkin_ws/src --ignore-src
```
after you have sourced the appropriate setup.bash for your ROS distro.

Invoking catkin_make should now succeed (provided flir_pty_driver declares all its dependencies correctly).

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installed the serial dependencies , and it works now..

215 ( 2015-02-11 07:39:40 -0600 )edit

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