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Running rosrun in a virtual environment

asked 2022-12-09 10:32:18 -0500

AlgK
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Is there a way to tell rosrun to use a specific virtual environment? There's a question here about it, but no answers:

https://answers.ros.org/question/3675...

I'd imagine something along

rosrun my_package script.py --venv /path/to/environment

Otherwise, I'd have to install all modules I need in my OS's Python - is that really intended? Would be much nicer to keep things separate, especially when developing locally.

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answered 2022-12-15 20:34:57 -0500

Mike Scheutzow
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No, unless you know a lot about ros you can not easily use a virtual environment.

If you are using the binary ros repo for ros packages, exactly one python version is supported (python 3.8.10 for noetic.) Most of the ros python code is put in /opt/ros/, but a few standard python packages may be installed to /usr/lib/python3.8/.

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