How does colcon install Python dependencies in ROS2?

asked 2020-02-07 11:54:06 -0500

screen33
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Can Colcon with ament_python install dependencies from setup.py by itself during colcon build --symlink-install step? e.g. I would like pyserial to be automatically retrieved from pypi and installed without invoking pip3 manually:

setup(
...
   install_requires=['setuptools', 'pyserial']
...
)

answered 2020-02-07 11:58:00 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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colcon doesn't install any dependencies (see the docs). The expectations is that you have installed all necessary dependencies before you try to build a package (e.g. using rosdep).

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Ah, yes. But it complains: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rosdep2'. I do have multiple Python interpreters on this machine, however default is py3.6

screen33 ( 2020-02-07 12:24:16 -0500 )edit

You need to install dependencies for the specific Python version you are using. If you use Python 3.6 you need to have python3-rosdep installed. If you also have ROS 1 / python-rosdep installed it is sufficient to just install python3-rosdep-modules (all assuming you are on Ubuntu using the ROS apt repos).

Dirk Thomas ( 2020-02-07 12:37:26 -0500 )edit

I also have ROS melodic, but I guess this is why I'm getting conflicts: python3-rosdep : Depends: python3-catkin-pkg but it is not going to be installed

screen33 ( 2020-02-07 12:47:30 -0500 )edit

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