ROS Resources: Documentation | Support | Discussion Forum | Index | Service Status | ros @ Robotics Stack Exchange
Ask Your Question

Revision history [back]

click to hide/show revision 1
initial version

answered 2012-11-08 10:22:32 -0500

joq gravatar image

Your build is failing because you are using the /opt/ros/fuerte install tree. Due to file permissions, that can only be updated by the admin (root) user.

Do not try to build it there using the sudo command. That is not a good solution.

Instead, check out a source overlay using rosws or some similar tool, and build it there. That version will take precedence over the one installed in /opt/ros/fuerte.

click to hide/show revision 2
add reason for not updating /opt/ros

Your build is failing because you are using the /opt/ros/fuerte install tree. Due to file permissions, that can only be updated by the admin (root) user.

Do not try to build it there using the sudo command. That is not a good solution.

Instead, check out a source overlay using rosws or some similar tool, and build it there. That version will take precedence over the one installed in /opt/ros/fuerte.

EDIT: The reason you should not ever make any changes in the /opt/ros trees is because future Debian package updates will destroy your work.