Rosdep Yaml Exact Folder

Question

Is there a way to specify the exact location of my PCL-1-7 installation in a rosdep yaml file? I've installed PCL from source.

This is the ROS installation error related to it:

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved to system dependencies: pcl_conversions: No definition of [libpcl-all] for OS [fedora] pcl_ros: No definition of [libpcl-all] for OS [fedora]

I've tried with the yum pcl packages in Fedora but they don't seem to provide the right PCL version.

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Originally posted by atp on ROS Answers with karma: 529 on 2013-12-08

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Answer 1

rosdep interacts with package managers only. So you cannot point it to a specific file/folder.

You can override the rosdep rule by creating your own rosdep file, which will set the rosdep resolution to an empty list if you want to manage the dependency manually.

When you have the file add it's path to your rosdep sources in /etc/ros/rosdep/

Then rosdep will not try to install pcl for you.

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Originally posted by tfoote with karma: 58457 on 2013-12-08

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by atp on 2013-12-09:
Empty list = []? Can you give an example?

Comment by tfoote on 2013-12-09:
Exactl. https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yaml#L1900 is an example

Comment by atp on 2013-12-10:
Thanks. That worked fine.