Hi, William Woodall: Thank you very much for your help. My question is now posted at http://answers.ros.org/question/63615/build-ros-from-source-without-using-default-ffmpeg-in-ubuntu-1210/ I'm looking forward to your answer at your earliest convenience. Thanks again. Best Regards Pei On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:12 AM, William Woodall wrote: > Hi Pei, > > This sort of question belongs on answers.ros.org. > > I would be happy to help you over there. For future reference please see > our Support policies: http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support > > Thanks! > > P.S. make sure to tag your question on answers.ros.org and send me a link > to your question at my personal email and > I'll try to answer it. > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, JIA Pei 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 >> >> Welcome to Vision Open >> http://www.visionopen.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > > -- > William Woodall > ROS Development Team > william@osrfoundation.org > http://williamjwoodall.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Pei JIA Email: jp4work@gmail.com cell: +1 604-362-5816 Welcome to Vision Open http://www.visionopen.com