[Documentation out of date] Ubuntu 18.04, PCL ppa not found 404

[yiakwy]

Document of installation on Ubuntu is out of date.

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

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Err:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/v-launchpad-jochen-sprickerhof-de/pcl/ubuntu bionic Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
...

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Ubuntu 18.04, a new workstation.

[jspricke]

No need to, PCL is in Ubuntu, just sudo apt install libpcl-dev.

[yiakwy]

@jspricke I have resolved PCL installation by installing ROS. However the pcl bundled with ROS is PCL - V1.7. Another problem is that vtk is missing.

Update on 12/26

The vtk problem is with vtk6 installation files. By manually creating soft symbol links to missing binaries and libraries to file installed by libvtk6-dev, you can resolve "Not Found" problems

[jspricke]

Huh, there is 1.8 in Ubuntu 18.04:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpcl-dev
also there is VTK coming with it..

[yiakwy]

@jspricke Received with thanks!

[anujgpatil]

@taketwo sir...
Apart from #804 , I am parallely using bionic on another Jetson Board-18.04 UBUNTU-fresh JetPack 4.2.
When I install libpcl-dev using apt install, only few basic modules are installed but not others like CUDA,GPU,TOOLS,etc

1. Why are they not included in the PPA?
2. Is building from source and make install the only option to get these targets?

[SergioRAgostinho]

gpu and cuda are unstable modules so there's a strong argument in favor of not distributing through normal package distributions. As I recall, pcl tools are installed.

[FrancescoTerrosi]

When I try to compile and run the tutorial I get the following error even if I installed it with apt

By not providing "FindPCL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "PCL", but
CMake did not find one.

And I can't find the file anywhere.
Any ideas?

Thanks

[kunaltyagi]

@FrancescoTerrosi please stay on topic. Please create a new question on stack-overflow or github issues (or gitter chat) with more details.