Source based installation

Rosinstall needs to be installed on your system. If its not installed, follow the installation instructions here: rosinstall.

1. Install the Openni drivers onto your system

   hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/drivers
   cd drivers
   make 
   make install

   Debian users: Instead of doing the make and make install steps, you may want to build and install Debian packages. This ensures that the package manager (dpkg) can keep track of all installed files on the system.

   make debian
   sudo dpkg -i *.deb

   Mac OS X: Check out revision 272:10395243b2db and apply all the patches in Ticket #36. Assuming you have a copy of NITE 1.3.1.5 Mac OS X tarball, follow instructions in Ticket #36, Comment #5. Then make and make install

   # Get revision #272
   hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/drivers
   cd drivers
   hg checkout 272
   
   # Apply patches from Ticket #36...
   patch openni/Makefile < openni-Makefile.patch
   patch ps_engine/Makefile < ps_engine-Makefile.patch
   # ...and so forth
   
   # First build nite directory if you have a local tarball according to Ticket #36, Comment #5
   cd nite
   make TARBALL_URL=file:///Users/username/NITE-Bin-MacOSX-v1.3.1.5.tar.bz2 TARBALL=NITE-Bin-MacOSX-v1.3.1.5.tar.bz2
   cd ..
   
   # Build and install drivers
   make
   make install

2. Checkout the source onto your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:

   hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/openni_ros

3. Compile everything:

    rosdep install openni_kinect
    rosmake openni_kinect

After installation you need to unplug and plug in all OpenNI compatible (Primesense SDK & Kinect) devices. Each user working with a device needs to be member of the 'video' group.