ROS Resources: Documentation | Support | Discussion Forum | Index | Service Status | ros @ Robotics Stack Exchange
Ask Your Question
1

Installing Simple Arms

asked 2011-10-13 08:08:59 -0500

Aroarus gravatar image

updated 2011-10-13 09:40:05 -0500

Hello! I was trying to follow the turtlebot arm setup tutorial and I got the following error when trying to install simple arms:

$ rosmake --rosdep-install simple_arms
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['simple_arms']                             
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/home/marc/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20111013-160200
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['simple_arms'] to:
[]                                
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages: ['simple_arms']
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.

Does anyone have an idea of why I am getting this error, and how I should go about fixing it?

In addition to this, I am getting the following error upon trying to run the next step, to install the turtlebot_arm software.

marc@marc-howard:~/ros$ hg clone hg https://kforge.ros.org/turtlebot/turtlebot_arm
abort: repository hg not found!

I don't know if this is because of the previous problem or if that is it's own problem. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you very much!

Thank you very much! I have attached my command history for getting it set up below so that everything can be seen:

marc@marc-howard:~$ cd ~/ros
marc@marc-howard:~/ros$ svn co http://vanadium-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/simple_arms/
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/include
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/include/simple_grasping
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/manifest.xml
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/src
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/CMakeLists.txt
A    simple_arms/simple_grasping/Makefile
A    simple_arms/stack.xml
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/manifest.xml
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/bin
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/bin/relax_arm_server.py
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/bin/reset_arm_server.py
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/CMakeLists.txt
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/action
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/action/RelaxArm.action
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/action/ResetArm.action
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_actions/Makefile
A    simple_arms/CMakeLists.txt
A    simple_arms/Makefile
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/manifest.xml
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/msg
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/msg/ArmAction.msg
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/src
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/src/simple_arm_navigation_server.cpp
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/nodes
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/nodes/simple_arm_server_test.py
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/nodes/simple_arm_server.py
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/nodes/constraint_aware_simple_arm_server.py
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/srv
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/srv/GetTrajectoryValidity.srv
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/mainpage.dox
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/launch
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/launch/arm_server.launch
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/CMakeLists.txt
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/action
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/action/MoveArm.action
A    simple_arms/simple_arm_server/Makefile
Checked out revision 587.
marc@marc-howard:~/ros$ rosmake --rosdep-install simple_arms
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['simple_arms']                             
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/home/marc/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20111013-160043
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['simple_arms'] to:
[]                                
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages: ['simple_arms']
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.
marc@marc-howard:~/ros$ ls
simple_arms
marc@marc-howard:~/ros$ cd simple_arms/
marc@marc-howard:~/ros/simple_arms$ rosmake --rosdep-install simple_arms
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['simple_arms']                             
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/home/marc/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20111013-160108
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['simple_arms'] to:
[]                                
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages: ['simple_arms']
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack ...
(more)
edit retag flag offensive close merge delete

Comments

it looks like your hg clone command is wrong.. hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/turtlebot/turtlebot_arm
mmwise gravatar image mmwise  ( 2011-10-13 10:04:31 -0500 )edit
Thank you, the new one worked! I just want to let you know that I just copied and pasted from the tutorial, however, so I went and updated that!
Aroarus gravatar image Aroarus  ( 2011-10-13 10:19:29 -0500 )edit

1 Answer

Sort by ยป oldest newest most voted
2

answered 2011-10-13 12:40:19 -0500

fergs gravatar image

updated 2011-10-13 12:42:09 -0500

Is simple_arms actually on your ROS path (is ~/ros on your path? can you "roscd simple_arm_server"?). You might also try a "rospack profile" to update things.

Also, I just updated the ROS tutorial, you can actually install simple arms from debs now:

sudo apt-get install ros-electric-simple-arms

turtlebot_arm will be in debs shortly.

edit flag offensive delete link more

Comments

~/ros is on my path. I was not able to resolve this issue, but the deb install worked fine. Thank you very much!
Aroarus gravatar image Aroarus  ( 2011-10-14 08:10:54 -0500 )edit
Great, if you select the checkmark next to my answer it will mark this question as answered.
fergs gravatar image fergs  ( 2011-10-14 08:45:18 -0500 )edit

Question Tools

Stats

Asked: 2011-10-13 08:08:59 -0500

Seen: 477 times

Last updated: Oct 13 '11