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The easiest and preferred way of installing packages is via

$ sudo apt-get install ros-<your distro>-<package name>

like e.g.

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-hector-slam

If there is no debian build or you need the source version for some reason you clone the Github repo to the src folder of your catkin workspace.

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