[ros-users] libfreenect0.0 conflict with libfreenect-dev

[Sudarshan Srinivasan]

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 <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>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 at 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 <timothy.l.sweet at gmail.com>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" <sudarshan85 at gmail.com>
>>> 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. Please let me know if you
>>> need any more information.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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