Installation

If you have a working ROS installation, catkin should be installed already.

Prerequisites

Catkin has the following dependencies:

• CMake - A cross-platform, open-source build system.
• Python - A general-purpose, interpreted high-level programming language.
• catkin_pkg - A Python runtime library for catkin.
• empy - A Python template library.
• nose - A Python testing framework.
• GTest - A C++ unit test framework from Google.

You can resolve these dependencies on Ubuntu with this command:

sudo apt-get install cmake python-catkin-pkg python-empy python-nose libgtest-dev

If you are not on Ubuntu you can install catkin_pkg from PyPi via pip:

sudo pip install -U catkin_pkg

Ubuntu install

Catkin is distributed with ROS as binary debian package for Ubuntu, it can be installed via:

sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-catkin

For ROS Hydro, install ros-hydro-catkin instead.