Catkin can be installed by simply following the CMake standard
build/install process:

$ cd /path/to/catkin/src
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ (sudo) make install

Alternatively you can build catkin in a workspace with other catkin
packages (this is sort of like a bootstrap):

$ mkdir catkin_ws
$ cd catkin_ws
$ mkdir src
$ cd src
... Checkout catkin and any other catkin based packages here...
$ cd ..
$ ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make
$ ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make install  # this passes the 'install' target
to make

Hope that gets you going.

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 16:23 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > How do I build catkin from source?
>
> It's a cmake based build system. Got it to build. Trying to figure out
> where to place the files now.
>
> [SOLVED]
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