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A sudo-less option for rosdep has been talked about for while now, but nothing has ever gotten rolled out.
This pull request addresses this by allowing you to set a ROSDEP_PREFIX which can be in your home folder or whatever:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdep/pull/312
But there are substantial changes to the behavior of rosdep in that pull request and without more people pushing on testing it out and getting all the docs and tutorials updated, it won't make it into master.
We have addressed it in xylem, but that doesn't help you right now.
Currently there is no way to use rosdep without sudo that I know of, but you could manually modify rosdep's source code to install and look for those files in a different place, to which you can write. This isn't very sustainable because you would need to do this every time a new rosdep comes out, but it would work for now.
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