PCL Ubuntu Installation

Question

I have been trying to install PCL for linux on Ubuntu 14.10: http://pointclouds.org/downloads/linux.html

So far, I have done the first two steps,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:v-launchpad-jochen-sprickerhof-de/pcl
sudo apt-get update

But it fails on the third:

$ sudo apt-get install libpcl-all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libpcl-all

What can I do to solve this problem? I have looked online, but all the existing threads do not seem to have a working resolution.

Answer 1

Install libpcl1, it's in the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install libpcl1

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Or as @Fabby said, compile your own version:

sudo apt-get install git
cd
git clone git@github.com:PointCloudLibrary/pcl.git
cd pcl
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

Note the missing development libraries, eg:

-- checking for module 'eigen3'
--   package 'eigen3' not found
-- checking for module 'flann>=1.7.0'
--   package 'flann>=1.7.0' not found

and install the development libraries with, eg:

sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
sudo apt-get install libflann-dev

Start the compiler with make

make

And install

• the classic way make install

  sudo make install
  

• with checkinstall

  sudo apt-get install checkinstall
  sudo checkinstall
  

Answer 2

Because for your version of Ubuntu this library does not exist in this PPA.

To solve this, you need to build from source instead.