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How to install moveit on ROS melodic

Hi, I am a newbie to ROS and I was just working with some sample examples.One of them uses the move it ros library.Since I am working on a Ubuntu(18) :ROS Melodic ,can anyone suggest me how to install moveit. Thanks Yours Sincerely Sparsh garg

Asked by rosnewbie23 on 2018-06-01 01:38:28 UTC

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MoveIt has not yet been released for Melodic: see ros/rosdistro#17942. A sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-moveit should work, but you'd need to use the shadow repositories.

However, the current consensus among maintainers is (from here):

It should NOT be expected to be stable yet. Maybe calling it "beta"?

Overall progress is tracked here: ros-planning/moveit#806.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-06-01 01:41:05 UTC

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I feel like crying as I really loved the various kinematic solvers anyways would you suggest I downgrade my ros version.Thanks for replying

Asked by rosnewbie23 on 2018-06-01 01:42:32 UTC

I think you've missed my edit.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-06-01 01:44:52 UTC

Could anybody tell me if Moveit! is already available with melodic distro with a stable version? I believe so (https://moveit.ros.org/moveit!/ros/2018/05/23/firstmelodicrelease.html) I am trying to install it and follow the tutorials but I am getting errors in the step of building catkin workspace.

Asked by joao on 2018-09-13 05:24:01 UTC

Please don't post that as an answer.

But: yes, MoveIt has been released into ROS Melodic and is installable using apt-get. No need to build from sources.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-13 05:26:16 UTC

I followed the regular tutorial and installed it with sudo apt install ros-melodic-moveit. But in the same tutorial there's a step to build a catkin workspace with cd ~/ws_moveit/src rosdep install -y --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro kinetic and there's where I get the error

Asked by joao on 2018-09-13 05:37:30 UTC

If you're referring to the Binary installation instructions (also called: the users install) then I don't see a catkin workspace mentioned there. Only on the Previous ROS Versions this is mentioned. Melodic is not a previous version of ROS.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-13 05:50:58 UTC

I'm referring to Getting Started

Asked by joao on 2018-09-13 06:16:46 UTC

Ok, so MoveIt is succesfully installed, it's other dependencies that may be failing.

I would recommend to open a new question for that, as it would seem to be a different problem.

Please include all relevant console error output in your new question.

And link to all tutorials you're following.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-13 06:23:00 UTC

Thanks for your feedback

Asked by joao on 2018-09-13 06:26:18 UTC