Installing navigation stack on ROS Melodic

asked 2018-08-17 08:13:24 -0500

woz
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updated 2018-08-17 08:14:27 -0500

Hi,

I've been trying to use some features from the ros-planning/navigation stack, but it seems that it is not currently available for ROS Melodic. In my case, I need to use the map_server feature, in one of my applications. So far I've read that (sic) It has been released, but a sync has not yet happened., but all the package is available on their github page. Is there a way to manually install the downloaded package from GitHub on ROS Melodic Distro? I've already tried sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-navigation and had no success.

Thanks in advance.

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have you tried building github package?

Choco93 ( 2018-08-17 08:50:13 -0500 )edit

Haven't found any instructions on how to do that. Would you mind explaining how to?

woz ( 2018-08-17 08:55:39 -0500 )edit

clone into your workspace and do catkin build

Choco93 ( 2018-08-17 09:02:09 -0500 )edit

Didn't work. Copied the whole content into my catkin_ws folder, sourced it, tried to run catkin build and got catkin: command not found. Tried catkin_makeand nothing happened as well.

woz ( 2018-08-17 09:10:44 -0500 )edit

Also, downloaded the catkin_tools in order to use catkin build but when I tried to do it on my ws, I've got: The build space at '/home/<user>/catkin_ws/build' was previously built by 'catkin_make'. Please remove the build space or pick a different build space.

woz ( 2018-08-17 09:14:06 -0500 )edit

catkin clean -y && catkin build

Choco93 ( 2018-08-17 09:19:02 -0500 )edit

Didn't work as well: [clean] Error: The current or desired workspace could not be determined. Please runcatkin cleanfrom within a catkin workspace or specify the workspace explicitly with the--workspaceoption.

woz ( 2018-08-17 09:22:19 -0500 )edit

That is not at all how you would build a pkg from sources.

See #q252478 for the general procedure.