Is $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH after source install okay?

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asked 2012-02-05 13:42:22 -0500

StrongEnough
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updated 2012-02-05 14:07:09 -0500

After I did a source install to /media/apps/ros, as suggested in this question, is my $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, shown below, okay? lucid@lucid-desktop:~$ echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH /media/apps/ros/robot_model_tutorials:/media/apps/ros/visualization_tutorials:/media/apps/ros/geometry_tutorials:/media/apps/ros/common_tutorials:/media/apps/ros/ros_tutorials:/media/apps/ros/documentation:/media/apps/ros/geometry_experimental:/media/apps/ros/robot_model_visualization:/media/apps/ros/geometry_visualization:/media/apps/ros/diagnostics_monitors:/media/apps/ros/executive_smach_visualization:/media/apps/ros/visualization:/media/apps/ros/slam_gmapping:/media/apps/ros/navigation:/media/apps/ros/vision_opencv:/media/apps/ros/laser_pipeline:/media/apps/ros/image_pipeline:/media/apps/ros/image_transport_plugins:/media/apps/ros/perception_pcl:/media/apps/ros/image_common:/media/apps/ros/rx:/media/apps/ros/visualization_common:/media/apps/ros/physics_ode:/media/apps/ros/stage:/media/apps/ros/simulator_gazebo:/media/apps/ros/simulator_stage:/media/apps/ros/xacro:/media/apps/ros/executive_smach:/media/apps/ros/robot_model:/media/apps/ros/assimp:/media/apps/ros/pluginlib:/media/apps/ros/orocos_kinematics_dynamics:/media/apps/ros/nodelet_core:/media/apps/ros/geometry:/media/apps/ros/bullet:/media/apps/ros/filters:/media/apps/ros/eigen:/media/apps/ros/driver_common:/media/apps/ros/diagnostics:/media/apps/ros/common:/media/apps/ros/common_msgs:/media/apps/ros/bond_core:/media/apps/ros/common_rosdeps:/media/apps/ros/ros_comm lucid@lucid-desktop:~$

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answered 2012-02-05 14:21:21 -0500

Kent Williams

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updated 2012-02-05 14:36:05 -0500

That is the expected outcome, but you installed in a directory owned by root. I would suggest installing in your user home directory. rosinstall auto generates this based on what it installed. If you are going to build packages yourself, be sure to append to the $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH by following the instructions here http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment

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/media is owned by root (just like /opt) but apps is owned by user lucid. My Linux partition didn't allow room for ROS so I installed to a different partition as the installation directions suggested is okay. The "expected outcome" is a bit of a mess, don't you think? Why not a similar directory structure as the binary installation?

StrongEnough ( 2012-02-05 14:56:57 -0500 )edit

I believe it is because of the flexibility that rosinstall provides. If a package can be installed via rosinstall, it's installation directory can be outside of the main ros dir and sometimes really should be since it's often used for building dev source. Then it's auto appended to the package path.

Kent Williams ( 2012-02-05 15:09:42 -0500 )edit

I think I see, but was hoping for a better installation. I.E. a start would have been to suggest this: rosinstall ~/ros/electric "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=electric&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no" but the stacks would not be nested. Yuk. Giving your answer a thumbs-up because I asked the question poorly.

StrongEnough ( 2012-02-05 15:36:25 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-02-05 17:51:23 -0500