Rosdep errors on osx; cant find dependencies
I just downloaded a vanilla ROS install for osx (desktop-full, electric), and my ultimate goal is to build the openni-kinect libraries. Problems there aside, I seem to be encountering numerous errors within the rosdep dependency resolver.
Here is a simple test case:
$ rosdep install geometry
And the result:
Failed to find rosdep eigen for package tf_conversions on OS:osx version:lion
rosdep install ERROR:
failed to install eigen
(Note: I am not able to build geometry either due to errors within the python-orocos-kdl package)
Errors similar to this with packages that need to be installed with macports are very prominent when I try to rosdep anything
Given that people have gotten this working on osx before, I can only conclude that I have done something wrong.
Are you using homebrew or macports for your dependencies?
FYI ... I still haven't gotten the kinect libraries (openni) to work right. However, I have been very successful with the open source libfreenect.
I am making some headway actually; I have built (and used) openni before for an independent project. It really doesn't want to play nicely with ROS though.