Installing the packages VTK and pcl conflict with each other...

[nesakeerthi]

@yzrobot

VTK 5.x: sudo apt-get install libvtk5-dev when i tried to install the above package its shwoing to remove the follwoing.

The following packages will be REMOVED: libpcl-dev libvtk6-dev libvtk6-qt-dev ros-kinetic-camera-calibration ros-kinetic-compressed-depth-image-transport ros-kinetic-compressed-image-transport ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-depth-image-proc ros-kinetic-desktop ros-kinetic-desktop-full ros-kinetic-gazebo-plugins ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs ros-kinetic-image-geometry ros-kinetic-image-pipeline ros-kinetic-image-proc ros-kinetic-image-publisher ros-kinetic-image-rotate ros-kinetic-image-transport-plugins ros-kinetic-image-view ros-kinetic-opencv3 ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions ros-kinetic-pcl-ros ros-kinetic-perception ros-kinetic-perception-pcl ros-kinetic-rqt-common-plugins ros-kinetic-rqt-image-view ros-kinetic-simulators ros-kinetic-stereo-image-proc ros-kinetic-theora-image-transport ros-kinetic-vision-opencv ros-kinetic-viz The following NEW packages will be installed: libvtk5-dev

did the cmake with following warning

• The imported target "vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets" references the file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.so" but this file does not exist. Possible reasons include:
• The file was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
• An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
• The installation package was faulty and contained "/usr/lib/cmake/vtk-6.2/VTKTargets.cmake" but not all the files it references.

-- Eigen found (include: /usr/include/eigen3, version: 3.2.92) -- Boost version: 1.58.0 -- Found the following Boost libraries: -- system -- filesystem -- date_time -- iostreams -- serialization -- regex -- QHULL found (include: /usr/include, lib: optimized;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libqhull.so;debug;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libqhull.so) WARNING io features related to pcap will be disabled WARNING io features related to png will be disabled WARNING io features related to libusb-1.0 will be disabled -- looking for PCL_COMMON -- looking for PCL_KDTREE -- looking for PCL_OCTREE -- looking for PCL_SEARCH -- looking for PCL_SAMPLE_CONSENSUS -- looking for PCL_FILTERS -- looking for PCL_SURFACE -- looking for PCL_2D -- looking for PCL_FEATURES -- looking for PCL_IO -- looking for PCL_GEOMETRY -- looking for PCL_ML -- looking for PCL_SEGMENTATION -- looking for PCL_REGISTRATION -- looking for PCL_KEYPOINTS -- looking for PCL_TRACKING -- looking for PCL_RECOGNITION -- looking for PCL_STEREO -- Configuring done -- Generating done

please help with this issu

[luorui93]

You should replace the CMakelist.txt with CMakelist_Xenial.txt (in the same folder) and try to build again. I believe the prior one is for Ubuntu 14.04. You don't need to install anything, the vtk6 should already be installed. If not, try to run apt install libvtk6-dev