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On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, JIA Pei <jp4work@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, all:
>
>
> My environment:
> OS: Ubuntu 12.10
> OpenCV: 2.4.5 release
> PCL: 1.6.0 release (built from source)
> ffmpeg: 1.2 release (built from source)
> VTK: 5.10.1 release (built from source)
> boost: 1.50.0 (installed from the repository)
>
>
> There are some reasons that I really don't want to use the default
> ffmpeg -- libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev
> VTK 5.8.0
> boost 1.49
> from the default repository.
>
>
>
> Now here comes my question:
>
> I did have my ffmpeg 1.2 installed:
> please refer to http://visionopen.com/questions/ffmpeg.png
> and vtk 5.10.1 installed
> http://visionopen.com/questions/vtk.png
>
> but, when I tried to install ROS from source (refer to
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Installation/Source),
> the following command
> :*~/ros_catkin_ws$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src
> --rosdistro groovy -y*
> still requires the following packages:
> *libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libvtk5-dev
> libvtk5.8*
>
> I'm thinking at least, there is something like in CMake which lets me to
> select my own path/directory, rather than setup by *ROS* itself. There
> should be existing such a freedom to let me specify which version and which
> directory of ffmpeg, which version and which directory of vtk.
> But, according to http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Installation/Source, I
> can't find such a freedom. Can anybody help to let me know how to build *ROS
> from source* based on the dependencies that I myself am able to specify?
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> --
>
> Pei JIA
>
> Email: jp4work@gmail.com
> cell:    +1 604-362-5816
>
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