Schweizer Messer is a grab bag of tools for programming mainly focussed on work in robotics research requiring rapid prototyping.

That's it.

• numpy_eigen moved into its own package. The last revision of this repository still containing it is tagged as with_numpy_eigen.

... can be found here dependencies.rosinstall

... make sure to:

• Use gcc 4.7 (How to install on Ubuntu 12.04)
• Use a boost version that is compatible with gcc 4.7 (>= 1.51)

On Ubuntu 12.04, if your ubuntu-installed ROS depends on the ubuntu-installed boost you can simply download a later boost and install it from source - it will install to "/usr/local" per default (verify this though), where the Schweizer Messer build will look for it.