Hi Tully, I certainly understand that. However, I posted that question quite a while ago and since I am still trying to solve the problem I thought maybe posting to the mailing list would reach a different or wider audience. I apologize for the inconvenience. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Tully Foote wrote: > Hi Sudarshan, > > Please don't multiply post questions that is poor etiquette. We have > guidelines for asking for support posted at http://wiki.ros.org/Support > > Tully > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Sudarshan Srinivasan < > sudarshan85@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried there, but I didn't get a solution: >> http://answers.ros.org/question/144226/catkin_make-vision_visp-build-error/ >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Tim Sweet wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I think you'll get much better/faster responses to this type of question >>> at answers.ros.org >>> >>> -Tim >>> On Apr 7, 2014 12:25 PM, "Sudarshan Srinivasan" >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but as far as I have searched I >>> cannot find a solution to my problem. I am running ROS Groovy on Ubuntu >>> 12.04. >>> >>> I would like to install ros-groovy-visp (please note there is also >>> ros-groovy-vision-visp but this does not install everything that I need, >>> e.g. it does not install visp_auto_tracker and manually trying to install >>> it didn't work). However, when I try to install ros-groovy-visp I get the >>> following error: >>> >>> (sudarshan)$ sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-visp >>>> >>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>> >>>> Building dependency tree >>>> >>>> Reading state information... Done >>>> >>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >>>> >>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >>>> >>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >>>> >>>> or been moved out of Incoming. >>>> >>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>>> >>>> ros-hydro-visp : Depends: libfreenect0.0 but it is not going to be >>>>> installed >>>> >>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> So, I try to install libfreenect0.0, which ends up removing libfreenect >>> libfreenect-demos and libfreenect-dev: >>> >>> >>> >>> (sudarshan)$ sudo apt-get install libfreenect0.0 >>>> >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> >>> Building dependency tree >>> >>> Reading state information... Done >>> >>> The following packages will be REMOVED: >>>> >>> libfreenect libfreenect-demos libfreenect-dev >>> >>> The following NEW packages will be installed: >>> >>> libfreenect0.0 >>> >>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >>> >>> Need to get 0 B/27.5 kB of archives. >>> >>> After this operation, 209 kB disk space will be freed. >>> >>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y >>> >>> (Reading database ... 426205 files and directories currently installed.) >>> >>> Removing libfreenect-demos ... >>> >>> Removing libfreenect-dev ... >>> >>> Removing libfreenect ... >>> >>> Processing triggers for libc-bin ... >>> >>> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place >>> >>> Selecting previously unselected package libfreenect0.0. >>> >>> (Reading database ... 426178 files and directories currently installed.) >>> >>> Unpacking libfreenect0.0 (from >>>> .../libfreenect0.0_1%3a0.0.1+20101211+2-3_i386.deb) ... >>> >>> Setting up libfreenect0.0 (1:0.0.1+20101211+2-3) ... >>> >>> >>> But on trying to install ros-grooy-visp now, it fails citing unmet >>> dependency since libfreenect-dev is not installed: >>> >>> (sudarshan)$ sudo apt-get install libfreenect0.0 >>>>> >>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>> >>>> Building dependency tree >>>> >>>> Reading state information... Done >>>> >>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >>>> >>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >>>> >>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >>>> >>>> or been moved out of Incoming. >>>> >>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>>> >>>> ros-groovy-visp : Depends: libfreenect-dev but it is not going to be >>>>> installed >>>> >>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>>> >>>> >>> Obviously, installing libfreenect-dev removes libfreenect0.0. I have >>> been struggling to solve this conflict for a while, if anyone has any >>> suggestion to fix this, I would be very grateful. 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