Can't find any libk4abt file while installing Azure Kinect Body Tracking SDK

Lan Yang 0 Reputation points
2023-06-05T15:27:50.47+00:00

Hello,

I have been trying to install the Azure Kinect Body Tracking SDK in my WSL (Ubuntu 20.04). After executing the 3 lines of commands for the configuration of Microsoft's Package Repository and the one line command for installing: sudo apt install libk4abt<major>.<minor>-dev

I still can't install the package (The commands were all successfully executed). If I run "sudo apt search libk4a", I also found no such files. User's image

Can somebody tell me where the problem is....? Am I missing any step or are there really some files missing from the repo?

Many Thanks :))

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Azure Kinect DK
A Microsoft developer kit and peripheral device with advanced artificial intelligence sensors for sophisticated computer vision and speech models.
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  1. LeelaRajeshSayana-MSFT 13,546 Reputation points
    2023-06-05T16:31:45.0633333+00:00

    Hi @Lan Yang Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Thank you for posting the question here.

    You would need to replace the major and minor versions in the command sudo apt install libk4abt<major>.<minor>-dev with the appropriate versions of the SDK you would like to download from the repository.

    For example, you can try the following sudo apt install libk4abt1.1-dev to get the 1.1x version. This should be able to fetch and install the packages. Please refer the below image for reference.

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    Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions or run into any additional issues.

    Update

    The package is missing from the Ubuntu 20.04 repository. The package has now been included to the repository. Here is screenshot indicating that the libraries are added in the repository.

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    Please note that the Sensor SDK is needed for the body tracking SDK to work. Currently the sensor SDK is only supported on version 18.04. However, even though not officially supported, I have been informed by the product team that Sensor SDK can be installed on Ubuntu 20.04. As long as Sensor SDK is installed, you should be able to install Body tracking SDK without any issues.

    If the response helped, please do click Accept Answer and Yes. Doing so would help other community members with similar issue identify the solution. I highly appreciate your contribution to the community.

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