Hi All,

I am new to ROS and working my way through the installation and startup tutorial on the wiki. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

After installing groovy using apt-get, I run sudo rosdep init.

Then, I go to run rosdep update and get the following error:

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kurt@sharceye1:~$ rosdep update

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/kurt/ros/ros/bin/rosdep", line 34, in from ros import rosdep

File "/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ros/init.py", line 54, in getattr roslib.load_manifest(name.split('.')[0])

File "/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/launcher.py", line 62, in loadmanifest sys.path = _generatepythonpath(packagename, _rospack) + sys.path

File "/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/launcher.py", line 93, in generatepythonpath m = rospack.getmanifest(pkg)

File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rospkg/rospack.py", line 136, in getmanifest return self.load_manifest(name)

File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rospkg/rospack.py", line 175, in loadmanifest retval = self.manifests[name] = parsemanifestfile(self.getpath(name), self.manifestname)

File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rospkg/rospack.py", line 167, in getpath raise ResourceNotFound(name, rospaths=self.rospaths)

rospkg.common.ResourceNotFound: rosdep

ROS path [0]=/opt/ros/groovy/share/ros

ROS path [1]=/opt/ros/groovy/share

ROS path [2]=/opt/ros/groovy/stacks

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The same error occurs even if I only do rosdep --version.

Using apt-get to re-install rosdep does not seem to help.

Trying to reinstall all of ROS (I think) like this:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ros-groovy-desktop-full

does not resolve this.

Then, trying

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-rospkg

doesn't seem to help either - I get the same error running rosdep.

Does anybody have a suggestion of what else I might try?