Cannot install ROS Hydro on Ubuntu 12.04

asked 2014-01-07 05:48:10 -0500

pmolina
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updated 2014-01-28 17:07:33 -0500

ngrennan
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Hi,

I am having a problem installing ROS Hydro on Ubuntu 12.04. The problem appears to be related to Openni/PCL binaries.

I am tyring to install ros-hydro-desktop. I have a x64 machine (might be the problem)

I used to have ROS Fuerte installed, but completely removed it. Steps taken:

sudo apt-get remove ros-fuerte-ros
sudo apt-get autoremove

I also update to the the distribution.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

When I try to install ROS hydro

 sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop

I get the following response

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ros-hydro-desktop : Depends: ros-hydro-viz but it is not going to be installed

Digging deeper into this leads to the following problem

ps-engine : Depends: openni-dev (>= 1.5.2.23~precise)

However, when trying to install "openni-dev", I get the following version installed:

Get:1 <a href="http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/">http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/</a> precise/main openni-dev amd64 1.3.2.1-4+precise2

They are clearly different versions of this package. I tried going to openni but this did not solve the problem.

I followed the installation instruction from the wiki (added deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list)

These are the threads I have been reading that are related to this problem but do not offer a direct solution

link1

link2

link3

Any feedback/ideas will be greatly appreciated. I have spent several hours on this and not getting closer :S

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This is an actual current problem. I still do not quite understand the position of ROS support on this. Check this very interested thread this is still ongoing.... http://www.pcl-users.org/PCL-installation-unmet-dependency-problem-td4030129.html

pmolina ( 2014-01-07 11:13:01 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-02-20 08:33:23 -0500

sebsch
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It looks like you might have added jochen sprickerhof's ppa for PCL, which interferes with hydro.

Removing it with the following command solved the problem for me:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:v-launchpad-jochen-sprickerhof-de/pcl

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Thank you very much! You are a savior! This solves most of the problems - I can now install all openni stuff without problems. I have no idea why I had that on my ppas (guess better be careful what is on my ppas from now on)

pmolina ( 2014-06-07 14:01:08 -0500 )edit

Hero of the day. Would never had figured this out myself (busy 3 hours trying to install Hydro besides Groovy)

edward ( 2014-07-16 06:12:50 -0500 )edit

Precisely, this had been a common occurance for a long time and many other workaround get you stuck somewhere in the future, like installing turtlebot etc on hydro. Thanks for the proper fix.

Adnan Munawar ( 2014-11-04 14:02:24 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-01-08 04:02:33 -0500

pmolina
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I finally fixed this problem. I still do not think this is a solution, but so far it has not given me any trouble.

The problem is certainly rooted on the version of openni-dev package. I have no idea why the version currently online is 1.3.2 ...either way, this causes the package "ps-engine" to fail to install since it requires openni-dev 1.5.4 or later.

However, I installed aptitude and installed the openni-dev 1.3.2 and forced an install of an old version of ps-engine (5.2)... this however appears to play well with the PCL drivers and hence with the rest of ROS. I have however not tested this functionality, so I might run into other problems later.

Please read this thread for a full description of this: http://www.pcl-users.org/PCL-installation-unmet-dependency-problem-td4030129.html

Final commands used:

sudo aptitude install ps-engine

This will ask if it is OK to install the old version of ps-engine with the old openni-dev package (1.3) - press Y on this question. After this

 sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop

Will complete without major problems.

I hope this helps other people with this problem.

Thanks!

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Just a clarification: After "sudo aptitude install ps-engine" first option will be to not install ps-engine. It should be rejected with "n" and then the next option will be to install older version of ps-engine which should be accepted.

Vikas ( 2014-01-22 09:03:14 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-01-07 06:51:32 -0500

Athoesen

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I'm assuming you're using the instructions here: http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/Ubuntu

Have you tried installing the full package with the sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop-full command instead of just sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop? You say the problem appears related to PCL/Openni and if I'm not mistaken those might fall under the "2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception" category that this installation includes. Hope this helps.

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Thank you for your response. Yes, I did followed the installation instructions on the site you specified (which is why I added http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ precise/main to the source.list files) When I run the sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop-full I get the following answer The following packages have unmet dependencies: ros-hydro-desktop-full : Depends: ros-hydro-desktop but it is not going to be installed Depends: ros-hydro-mobile but it is not going to be installed Depends: ros-hydro-perception but it is not going to be installed Depends: ros-hydro-simulators but it is not going to be installed The problem is still present with the OpenNI or the PCL libraries. I have tried to remove anything related to fuerte or openni. I think the problem is on the server provided by ROS. It has an older openni library and it should be updated.

pmolina ( 2014-01-07 09:59:15 -0500 )edit

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