ros-noetic usage

Posted by xantho on
URL: http://official-rtab-map-forum.206.s1.nabble.com/ros-noetic-usage-tp9609.html

Hello guys,

I have been battling with visual slam using RTABMAP for the last week. I am trying to rectify a bunch of problems but lets start from the beginning.
When I install rtabmap i have to to install the standalone and ros versions. That's clear.
The github instructions specify the following:

The easiest way to get all them (Qt, PCL, VTK, OpenCV, ...) is to install/uninstall rtabmap binaries:

sudo apt install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rtabmap ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rtabmap-ros
sudo apt remove ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rtabmap ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rtabmap-ros

Does that mean that I first install using the first command and then immediately uninstall it again?
I tried that, then proceeded with the standalone install and then the ros install. When I tried to catkin_make it wouldn't compile because it wanted to use the  ros-noetic-rtabmap-conversions.

I then did sudo apt install ros-noetic-rtabmap-conversions and it compiled, but didn't rectify my problems so I uninstalled everything.

Can someone clarify this?

Thanks