how to remove leading / from frame_id

I'm using robot localization package and it doesn't like the "/" on the frame id. I've read some stuff on the closed issues, but I'm not sure how to correct this. I've installed from binaries on kinetic and it uses the "/"
Do I need to install from source? which branch is used for kinetic and have this issue solved?

Thank

There is no way to configure the driver to not use the leading / prefix. If you wish to install from source, ROS kinetic uses the kinet-devel branch, and you can edit the static method get_frame_id() to remove the prefix

nmea_navsat_driver/src/libnmea_navsat_driver/driver.py

Lines 199 to 211 in 42310d4

    
           def get_frame_id(): 
        
               frame_id = rospy.get_param('~frame_id', 'gps') 
        
               if frame_id[0] != "/": 
        
                   """Add the TF prefix""" 
        
                   prefix = "" 
        
                   prefix_param = rospy.search_param('tf_prefix') 
        
                   if prefix_param: 
        
                       prefix = rospy.get_param(prefix_param) 
        
                       if prefix[0] != "/": 
        
                           prefix = "/%s" % prefix 
        
                   return "%s/%s" % (prefix, frame_id) 
        
               else: 
        
                   return frame_id

	def get_frame_id():
	frame_id = rospy.get_param('~frame_id', 'gps')
	if frame_id[0] != "/":
	"""Add the TF prefix"""
	prefix = ""
	prefix_param = rospy.search_param('tf_prefix')
	if prefix_param:
	prefix = rospy.get_param(prefix_param)
	if prefix[0] != "/":
	prefix = "/%s" % prefix
	return "%s/%s" % (prefix, frame_id)
	else:
	return frame_id