https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49221565/unable-to-use-cv-bridge-with-ros-kinetic-and-python3?rq=1
# `python-catkin-tools` is needed for catkin tool
# `python3-dev` and `python3-catkin-pkg-modules` is needed to build cv_bridge
# `python3-numpy` and `python3-yaml` is cv_bridge dependencies
# `ros-kinetic-cv-bridge` is needed to install a lot of cv_bridge deps. Probaply you already have it installed.
sudo apt-get install python-catkin-tools python3-dev python3-catkin-pkg-modules python3-numpy python3-yaml ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
# Create catkin workspace
mkdir catkin_workspace
cd catkin_workspace
catkin init
# Instruct catkin to set cmake variables
catkin config -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python3.5m -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.5m.so
# Instruct catkin to install built packages into install place. It is $CATKIN_WORKSPACE/install folder
catkin config --install
# Clone cv_bridge src
git clone https://github.com/ros-perception/vision_opencv.git src/vision_opencv
# Find version of cv_bridge in your repository
apt-cache show ros-kinetic-cv-bridge | grep Version
Version: 1.12.8-0xenial-20180416-143935-0800
# Checkout right version in git repo. In our case it is 1.12.8
cd src/vision_opencv/
git checkout 1.12.8
cd ../../
# Build
catkin build cv_bridge
# Extend environment with new package
source install/setup.bash --extend
$ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from cv_bridge.boost.cv_bridge_boost import getCvType
>>>
