kinect + openni + ubuntu 12.10 installed by apt-get

Question

I'm trying to find a simple and error-free way to install kinect for my Ubuntu version. Using apt-cache I have an official list of primesense and .... perhaps openni like following:

libopenni-sensor-primesense-dev - Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework
libopenni-sensor-primesense0 - Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework
openni-sensor-primesense-bin - Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework

so I installed all of them by apt-get install and their versions are 5.1.0.41-2+quantal1. Is this considered an accomplished installation of OpenNI and the drivers?

Or do I need another installation of OpenNI development by downloading at OpenNI? if so, which version of SDK should I install (bcs I saw and also had the problem here. Why isn't there an official announcement of compatible versions between drivers and SDK? (or am I missing something?)

Another issue that I might have soon is that I'm going to install pcl, and there will be a trouble described here. Why such problems cannot be avoided?

I'm novice with Ubuntu and it's package installation

Thank you!

Edit 01: after installation of OpenNI SDK v1.5:

ii  libopenni-sensor-primesense-dev            5.1.0.41-2+quantal1                        amd64        Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework
ii  libopenni-sensor-primesense0               5.1.0.41-2+quantal1                        amd64        Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework
ii  libopenni0                                 1.5.4.0-4+quantal1                         amd64        framework for sensor-based 'Natural Interaction'
ii  openni-sensor-primesense-bin               5.1.0.41-1.1+quantal1                      amd64        Microsoft Kinect sensor modules for the OpenNI framework
ii  openni-utils                               1.5.4.0-4+quantal1                         amd64        debug and test utilities OpenNI framework

according to another preceding post here, this should be proper already, But I still cannot load my OpenNI samples

Answer 1

Have you installed the Kinect sensor drivers? If you haven't, you need to get it from here: https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect.