I am attempting to install ROS on OS X Lion. I've used ROS a lot in Linux but would like to be able to run ros distributed onto a Mac. I am getting stuck on step 1.6 with a "python-svn could not be imported" error. I have already attempted to install python-svn using pip, homebrew as well as an independent package I found online. Not sure what to do.
rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=electric&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/rosinstall", line 5, in <module>
pkg_resources.run_script('rosinstall==0.5.30', 'rosinstall')
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1214, in run_script
exec script_code in namespace, namespace
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.30-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/rosinstall", line 781, in <module>
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.30-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/rosinstall", line 703, in rosinstall_main
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.30-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/rosinstall", line 234, in __init__
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.30-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/rosinstall", line 283, in load_yaml
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.30-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/rosinstall", line 223, in __init__
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/vcstools/vcs_abstraction.py", line 51, in __init__
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/vcstools/svn.py", line 66, in __init__
vcstools.vcs_base.VcsError: 'python-svn could not be imported. Please install python-svn. On debian systems sudo apt-get install python-svn'
Thanks!
Actually we moved back from pysvn as the dependencies seem to cause problems and due to licensing issues. So after an update of rosinstall and vcstools, this should be fine again. Note that easy_install does not update vcstools if you just tell it to update rosinstall. use pip or tell easy_install to also update vcstools.
vcstools now requires pysvn, and it is not in pypi yet. I made a Homebrew formula for it here:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/10570
I would recommend not using Homebrew's Python, but just use Apple's.
You can use my formula in the mean time, while it is getting put into Homebrew, by running these commands:
brew pull 10570
brew install pysvn
Hope this helps.
At the moment vcstools relies on python-svn which is not available from pypi. We're working on getting python-svn into pypi, but for the moment users have reported installing python-svn from source on OSX works. Ticketed here
Thanks for the answer. I tried installing pysvn from source just now but am having issues with dependencies and homebrew. Maybe you could help? I posted the issue here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/10541. Overall I'm not 100% sure what I'm trying to do. I just want to get ROS working!
Dave Coleman (Feb 27)editAsked: Feb 21
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Last updated: Mar 11
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