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How to install ROS-fuerte with the dependency to python 2.6 when python 2.7 also exists in Ubuntu12.04?

asked 2013-03-27 01:34:35 -0500

Amigoshan
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updated 2014-04-20 14:06:47 -0500

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My environment is Ubuntu-12.04, ROS-fuerte. The default python version on Ubuntu-12.04 is python-2.7. I firstly installed ROS-fuerte depending on python-2.7. But I would like to use ROS with other software that developed by Python-2.6. So I installed python-2.6, and make it default in my system. And then I re-installed the ROS-fuerte (want to change its dependency) using "sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-desktop-full". But I found that the ROS still depends on python-2.7(the python library under ROS is /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/python2.7). What should I do to make ROS work with python-2.6?

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Interestingly, I just found that python version supported in fuerte is 2.6, which is not supported on Precise. I opened a question.

130s ( 2013-04-18 12:44:07 -0500 )edit

Are you sure the other software will not work with Python 2.7? There are not many differences.

joq ( 2013-05-07 09:36:52 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-05-06 15:06:01 -0500

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ROS will work with python 2.6, but the packaged binaries are packaged against the default system python. If you pull the packages you need from source they should work. Repackaging will be a very big pain.

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