Hello,

I'm new to ROS, after reading a bit of documentation, I'm trying to install tentone/tello-ros2 repository to run orbslam on a tello drone. I am using ROS Foxy.

The dependencies are correctly installed after running scripts/install.sh. When I run the script scripts/build.sh however, which is basically running colcon:

colcon build --symlink-install --packages-select tello tello_control tello_msg

I keep getting the following error:

WARNING: ROS_PYTHON_VERSION is unset. Defaulting to 3
ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
tello: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [rosidl_default_runtime]
tello_control: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [ament_lint_common]
tello_msg: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [ament_lint_common]
Starting >>> tello_msg
Starting >>> tello_control
--- stderr: tello_msg                                                                  
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake_core/cmake//package_templates/templates_2_cmake.py", line 20, in <module>
    from ament_package.templates import get_environment_hook_template_path
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ament_package'
CMake Error at /opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake_core/cmake/ament_cmake_package_templates-extras.cmake:41 (message):
  execute_process(/usr/bin/python3
  /opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake_core/cmake//package_templates/templates_2_cmake.py
  /home/huangpan1/tello_1410/tello-ros2/workspace/build/tello_msg/ament_cmake_package_templates/templates.cmake)
  returned error code 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake_core/cmake/ament_cmake_coreConfig.cmake:41 (include)
  /opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake/cmake/ament_cmake_export_dependencies-extras.cmake:15 (find_package)
  /opt/ros/foxy/share/ament_cmake/cmake/ament_cmakeConfig.cmake:41 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:18 (find_package)


---
Failed   <<< tello_msg [0.82s, exited with code 1]
Aborted  <<< tello_control [0.81s]

Summary: 0 packages finished [0.96s]
  1 package failed: tello_msg
  1 package aborted: tello_control
  2 packages had stderr output: tello_control tello_msg
  1 package not processed

In other threads in this forum it was suggested to source the setup file to set up environment, which I already did (source /opt/ros/foxy/setup.bash), but that didn't help.

The strange thing is, if I open python (/usr/bin/python3) and I run the command:

from ament_package.templates import get_environment_hook_template_path

it works perfectly fine, with no error.

I am totally stuck and with no clue, so I'm asking here - anyone has any idea what I am doing wrong? as I said I'm quite new to ROS, so I suspect I am missing something very basic here. Thanks for the help!

PYTHONPATH=/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages