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sphero_ros with indigo

asked 2014-07-29 15:02:23 -0500

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Hello, I a learning ROS and I have installed indigo and I am running ubuntu 14.04. I have a sphero that I would like to experiment with and I have tried installing the sphero package via "apt-get install sphero_ros" but apt-get cant seem to find the package. I have checked that ubuntu allows "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse".

1) Is there something else I need to do to tell ubuntu where to find this package?

2) The only documentation i can find for this package is for groovy. Are packages for older ROS distros viable for new distros?

Thanks in advance for your help

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answered 2014-07-29 15:12:35 -0500

ahendrix

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1) It looks like the docs are wrong about the package name in the tutorials. Since the docs are part of the repository, you should file a bug against the sphero_ros bugtracker

2) It looks like they haven't released a version of spehro_ros for any of the newer ROS releases, so you won't be able to use the packaged version. You should still be able to install sphero_ros from source: https://github.com/mmwise/sphero_ros

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