How do I update ROS?

asked 2011-06-27 16:00:10 -0500

mbahr
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I just received my Kinect. I am in the process of installing ubuntu 11.04. I had a prior version of ROS installed... Is there a simple way to upgrade the current installation?

Sorry, this is a very newbie question. I've spent a little time searching for the answer but it hasn't jumped out at me.

-Mike

answered 2011-06-27 16:19:52 -0500

liuhuanjim013
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Hi,

If you got ROS from package manager, try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Huan

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Exactly. Before doing that however, you should have a look at the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list and uncomment the lines starting with "deb" (remove the #). They are commented out automatically during upgrade. (I am assuming you are upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04?)

Martin Günther ( 2011-06-28 00:31:25 -0500 )edit

Also make sure they read packages.ros.org not code.ros.org. The code.ros.org debian repo is deprecated. http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Ubuntu#diamondback.2BAC8-Installation.2BAC8-Sources.Setup_your_sources.list

tfoote ( 2011-06-28 04:29:30 -0500 )edit

Is 'apt-get dist-upgrade' only for upgrade ROS version or it will also upgrade ubuntu? And how to only update ROS packages?

sam ( 2011-07-20 01:36:19 -0500 )edit

No, 'dist-upgrade' will not upgrade ubuntu. You can also just do a normal 'apt-get upgrade' instead. (The difference between 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade' is that 'dist-upgrade' does some stuff to handle changed dependencies etc. correctly.)

Martin Günther ( 2011-07-20 01:42:47 -0500 )edit

I figured out that dist-upgrade is not only for ROS. Why dist-upgrade can upgrade the ROS version not just upgrade all the packages of ROS?

sam ( 2011-07-20 01:52:30 -0500 )edit

My last opinion maybe incorrect. I have tried on cturtle with dist-upgrade,it doesn't upgrade to diamondback, but only upgrade all the cturtle packages. So how to upgrade cturtle to diamondback?Thank you~

sam ( 2011-07-20 02:03:12 -0500 )edit

Simple: use Synaptic or aptitude or whatever to remove the ros-cturtle-* packages and install the ros-diamondback-* packages you need.

Martin Günther ( 2011-07-20 02:08:29 -0500 )edit

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