How to install a stack and package manually in Fuerte?

asked 2012-06-18 22:17:26 -0600

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Hi.

I'm trying to install the rosbridge package from the brown_remotelab stack. The tutorials and answers that I've found on the web give more-or-less the following procedure for doing this:

# Enter directory where my stacks are kept
roscd
# Checkout repository
svn co http://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/distribution/brown_remotelab
# Enter directory of package
cd brown_remotelab/rosbridge
# Build package and it's dependencies
rosmake --rosdep-install

This doesn't work for me. For starters when I try to run rosmake --rosdep-install I get the error message:

rosmake: error: no such option: --rosdep-install

So it looks like the --rosdep-install option is deprecated. Also if I try running without that option I get:

[ rosmake ] rosmake starting...
[ rosmake ] No package or stack specified.  And current directory 'rosbridge' is not a package name or stack name.
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: []
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory /root/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20120619-160854
[ rosmake ] Expanded args [] to:
[]
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.

Similarly, if I try to use roscd, rospackage or rosstack on the newly downloaded stack and packages I get errors like

roscd: No such package/stack 'rosbridge'

or

[rosstack] Error: stack/package brown_remotelab not found

So it looks like ROS doesn't know where to find them. This is after re-sourcing my setup.bash.

In short: What is the complete procedure for downloading and installing a ROS stack and package from source in ROS Fuerte?

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In my opinion, you should first "roscreate-pkg" with the corresponding name and then svn checkout in this folder. This way the package will be known by ros and rosmake can work (not tested on fuerte).

Erwan R. ( 2012-06-18 23:33:02 -0600 )edit

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You only call roscreate-pkg when you really want to create a new package, not when you check something out. It wouldn't help anyway since it seems like the checkout was simply not in the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH.

Lorenz ( 2012-06-18 23:35:10 -0600 )edit

Ok, right, thanks for bringing some light on that.

Erwan R. ( 2012-06-19 03:47:06 -0600 )edit

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answered 2012-06-18 23:31:20 -0600

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You didn't put the checkout into your ros workspace. The cleanest way of managing your workspace is probably by using rosws. You can install it with

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install -U rosinstall

Now you can set up a ros workspace:

rosws init ~/ros_workspace /opt/ros/fuerte

Now source the newly generated setup.bash:

source ~/ros_workspace/setup.bash

You can also replace the line source /opt/ros/fuerte/setup.bash by the line above to always use your workspace. Just don't forget to remove setting of the variable ROS_WORKSPACE if you do so in your .bashrc since that is done by rosws' setup.bash.

Now add the repository you want to check out:

rosws set brown_remotelab "http://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/distribution/brown_remotelab" --svn
rosws update brown_remotelab

Source ~/ros_workspace/setup.bash again or open a new terminal to make sure that your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH is updated and try running

rosmake brown_remotelab

rosmake --rosdep-install is not supported in Fuerte anymore. See this question.

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answered 2012-08-15 05:34:51 -0600

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using rosdep update solve the problem for me.

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