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So, I know how to clone a repository from github, but that's all. I would like to install the common_msgs collection of packages onto my Raspberry Pi which is running debian jessie. How do I go about installing ROS packages, or a collection of ROS packages from github?
I believe you have a catkin workspace set up already. If not you can follow this. Once that is done, you can go to the github page for your package. In this case, I believe you are looking for common_msgs.
Open terminal and navigate to src folder in your catkin workspace:
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
Then clone the repository using:
git clone -b <branch> <address>
For example, if you are looking to run it in ros hydro, your command could look like:
git clone -b hydro-devel https://github.com/ros/common_msgs.git
Once it is completed, do the following:
cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make
In some cases, they may not have specific branch set up for your version of ROS. What I have posted here is only one possible example. Go to git and see what branches they have. If they haven't said anything about using a specific branch for indigo, the master branch should probably work.
Have a look at the Installing ROS from source tutorial. One of the notes for example states how to change the install target for catkin_make:
Note: The default catkin installation location would be ~/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated, if you would like to install some where else then you can do this by adding the --install-space /opt/ros/kinetic argument to your catkin_make_isolated call.
I wanted to install a new package this way, however my user login does not have write privilege to /opt/ros/
When I tried using sudo, that didn't work either because root did not have the necessary environment from setup.bash
Managed to do it via a root shell (using sudo -s) but was awkward.
Asked: 2016-07-23 17:48:04 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 28 '16
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