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Building RealSense Camera from Sources

Description: Instructions for building the realsense_camera package from source files.

Keywords: realsense, build, source, sources

Tutorial Level: INTERMEDIATE

Next Tutorial: Building both librealsense and RealSense Camera from Sources

Contents

  1. Cloning sources into catkin Workspace
  2. Install Dependencies
  3. Build the Package
  4. Use the Package

Cloning sources into catkin Workspace

# Create the catkin workspace
mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/src

# Download the source files
git clone https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense.git
cd realsense

# Checkout the latest stable code
git checkout -b stable-branch stable

Install Dependencies

# Update the dependencies database
rosdep update

# Attempt to install dependencies
# Requires that your login has sudo privileges to instal as root using apt-get
cd ~/catkin_ws
rosdep -y install --from-paths src --ignore-src

Build the Package

cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make

Use the Package

source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash
roslaunch realsense_camera r200_nodelet_default.launch

Wiki: realsense_camera/Tutorials/Building_from_Sources (last edited 2016-11-17 02:34:42 by mdhorn)

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