Sorry it took me so long, but I answered you question. I was on vacation. Hope that answer helps! On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:27 AM, JIA Pei wrote: > 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 < > william@osrfoundation.org> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/