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What is ROS path (e.g. ~/ros).

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asked 2012-01-05 09:47:11 -0500

atslagle
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What is meant when you are told to move into your personal ROS path (e.g. ~/ros)?

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Please post with enough information for us to reproduce your setup. Or what instructions you are following.

tfoote ( 2012-01-24 03:53:46 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-01-05 10:31:03 -0500

joq
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Depends on the context. There is $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, used to resolve packages, and $ROS_HOME which is usually the current directory when running roslaunch (and defaults to ~/.ros).

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So when I run this, rosmake --rosdep-install pi_speech_tutorial, I get an error saying that it Rospack failed to build do you know what I am doing wrong?

atslagle ( 2012-01-05 11:51:22 -0500 )edit

Are you sourcing your setup.sh correctly?