build failed for openni driver

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hi

i have kinect camera and i'm trying to install it in my laptop with 32-bit ubuntu 11.10 and ros electric.so i connected the usb cable from kinect to laptop and started with the steps given in openni_kinect package in ros.org and got following error while trying to run make cmd in drivers:

root@mutu-Vostro-3550:/opt/ros/electric/stacks/drivers# make cd openni && make make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/ros/electric/stacks/drivers/openni' cd build/openni/Platform/Linux/CreateRedist && bash RedistMaker && cd -

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• PrimeSense OpenNI Redist *

• 2012-04-16 21:21:43       *
  

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Target: Linux-x86 Version: 1.5.2.23 Num of compile jobs: 8

• Building OpenNI... ../../../../../Source/Utils/niLicense/niLicense.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’: ../../../../../Source/Utils/niLicense/niLicense.cpp:122:108: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘unsigned int’ [-Wformat] ../../../../../Source/Utils/niLicense/niLicense.cpp:129:97: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘unsigned int’ [-Wformat] /bin/sh: javac: not found make[3]: *** [../../../Bin/x86-Release/org.OpenNI.jar] Error 127 make[2]: *** [Wrappers/OpenNI.java] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... failed to execute: make -j8 -C /opt/ros/electric/stacks/drivers/openni/build/openni/Platform/Linux/CreateRedist/../Build > /opt/ros/electric/stacks/drivers/openni/build/openni/Platform/Linux/CreateRedist/Output/BuildOpenNI.txt Building Failed! make[1]: *** [installed] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/electric/stacks/drivers/openni' make: *** [openni_lib] Error 2

what should i do?

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Originally posted by priya on ROS Answers with karma: 36 on 2012-04-16

Post score: 0

Answer 1

If you're using Ubuntu, you should use the binary packages instead of installing from source:

sudo apt-get install ros-electric-openni-kinect

Also, it looks like you have things in /opt/ros that aren't managed by apt. This is not a good idea and could cause things to act in unexpected ways.

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Originally posted by Dan Lazewatsky with karma: 9115 on 2012-04-16

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by priya on 2012-04-16:
yes i tried that first step but i got:mutu@mutu-Vostro-3550:~$ sudo apt-get install ros-electric-openni-kinect [sudo] password for mutu: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done ros-electric-openni-kinect is already the newest version.

Comment by Eric Perko on 2012-04-16:
Then you already have it installed and can try the launch files here: http://ros.org/wiki/openni_launch . If you get errors about things not being built or not being found, remove all files you added while attempting to do the source build and try again.