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For most released ros packages you can install them via apt-get.

The signature is in general:

sudo apt-get install ros-<your distro="">-<meta package="" name="" with="" _="" replaced="" by="" -="">

So for instance for your first package interactive_marker_tutorials the package wiki tells you that it is hosted inside the metapackage visualization_tutorials (http://wiki.ros.org/visualization_tutorials) . visualization_tutorials is released so we can install it via apt-get. For your distro indigo the command would then be:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-visualization-tutorials

For most released ros packages you can install them via apt-get.

The signature is in general:

sudo apt-get install ros-<your distro="">-<meta package="" name="" with="" _="" replaced="" by="" -="">

distro>-<meta package name with _ replaced by ->

So for instance for your first package interactive_marker_tutorials the package wiki tells you that it is hosted inside the metapackage visualization_tutorials (http://wiki.ros.org/visualization_tutorials) . visualization_tutorials is released so we can install it via apt-get. For your distro indigo the command would then be:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-visualization-tutorials

For most released ros packages you can install them via apt-get.

The signature is in general:

sudo apt-get install ros-<your distro>-<meta package name with _ underscores (_) replaced by ->
dashes (-) >

So for instance for your first package interactive_marker_tutorials the package wiki tells you that it is hosted inside the metapackage visualization_tutorials (http://wiki.ros.org/visualization_tutorials) . visualization_tutorials is released so we can install it via apt-get. For your distro indigo the command would then be:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-visualization-tutorials