20. Install Source Dependencies

Some ROS packages might have dependencies that you have to install from source. For this case, the git repository URLs are written in a .repos file.

To clone all source dependencies of e.g. hippo_full:

$ cd ~/ros2/src \
&& vcs import < hippo_full/hippo_full.repos

Note that the repositories will be cloned using https. If you need to push changes, you will need to manually switch to ssh.