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Wstool doing nothing

I was following the instructions for installing ROS Indigo on a Raspberry Pi.

I was following the instructions for Jessie, and as soon as I tried to run rosdep init and rosdep update, the command executed immediately and nothing occured. Rosinstall_generator did generate the .rosinstall file, but when I went to wstool it, nothing happened and the src folder was not created. Can anyone provide me assistance with this issue?

Edit: I literally am going to copy paste the lines from the tutorial, because that's what I ran :

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-setuptools python-yaml python-distribute python-docutils python-dateutil python-six
sudo pip install rosdep rosinstall_generator wstool rosinstall

sudo rosdep init               //Stopped working here
rosdep update

mkdir ~/ros_catkin_ws
cd ~/ros_catkin_ws

rosinstall_generator desktop --rosdistro indigo --deps --wet-only --exclude roslisp --tar > indigo-desktop-wet.rosinstall                      //Worked
wstool init src indigo-desktop-wet.rosinstall             //Didnt work, no src made

Edit: When I ran the requested Python one-liner, the following was the result:

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Asked by Yonahel on 2017-01-30 11:01:50 UTC

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What does "when I went to wstool it" mean exactly?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-30 12:13:22 UTC

Running the command wstool init src indigo-desktop-wet.rosinstall

Asked by Yonahel on 2017-01-30 16:20:03 UTC

I've just followed the steps the tutorial lists: the src directory was created by wstool and it started downloading all the tarballs.

Can you please add the exact steps you used that lead to the unexpected behaviour to your question? Please use the edit button/link for that.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 03:14:22 UTC

I followed the exact instructions to the tutorial and nothing more.

Asked by Yonahel on 2017-01-31 13:29:35 UTC

If you could please copy/paste the exact lines that you are executing in your terminal into your question text, we can help you diagnose what is going on. I can't reproduce your problem, so it's going to be difficult otherwise.

Also: copy/paste, don't type. It's easy to make mistakes.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 13:46:25 UTC

Well, then I'm sorry, but I can't help you, as I can't reproduce this.

Perhaps another board member recognises your issue and can help you further.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 14:16:19 UTC

sudo rosdep init  // Stopped working here

What 'stopped working here', exactly?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 14:18:52 UTC

It didn't take the usual amount of time to run (I've installed ROS about 8 different times on multiple machines, and this was the first time rosdep init and rosdep update did nothing when I pressed enter, just let me enter a new command).

Asked by Yonahel on 2017-01-31 14:47:58 UTC

I just had a hunch that maybe wstool doesn't do anything when the .rosinstall file is empty, but even with an empty file it creates the src directory, so I'm out of ideas now.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 15:39:10 UTC

Can you try and run

python -c "import urllib2; resp=urllib2.urlopen('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/ruby.yaml', timeout=15.0); print resp.info()"

and see what that outputs?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-01-31 15:39:41 UTC

Your last edit shows that at least now Python can reach the githubusercontent.com host. Does rosdep now also work?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-02-09 03:49:53 UTC

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