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Failing to follow kinect tutorial

asked 2015-07-19 05:14:34 -0500

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I am new to ROS in general. I have a kinect and want to follow the tutorial from http://wiki.ros.org/openni_launch/Tut... to see what kind of data comes out of the device.

The error I get when trying to run

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch

is

[openni.launch] is neither a launch file in package [openni_launch] nor is [openni_launch] a launch file name
The traceback for the exception was written to the log file

Which led me to http://answers.ros.org/question/65363... which however did not fix the problem. I have tried quite some different packages to (re)install, however the error is always the same.

I have read through the tutorials about ROS filesystem etc, out of which the most most relevant seems to be the one about roslaunch ( http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/Usi... ). However, for my problem, the system does not even seem to find the .launch file.

Can anybody help me with this issue? Has something changed, or am I too dump to understand the manual?

Software versions used: Ubuntu 14.04, ROS jade (have also tried the indigo packages)

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If you locate openni.launch, do you get anything?

Po-Jen Lai gravatar image Po-Jen Lai  ( 2015-07-19 11:36:35 -0500 )edit

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answered 2015-07-21 04:18:22 -0500

When I try to install ros-jade-openni-launch, apt-get tells me that it is not there. So due to the fact that ROS Jade is new, the package was not built for Jade by its maintainer yet. Thats why it does not find the package. Either you build openni for jade yourself, or you use ROS indigo. Or ask the maintainer if he would be so kind to release it for you for jade.

Regards,

Christian

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