rosws not adding workspace directory to ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

asked 2013-02-12 12:30:53 -0500

w1res

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updated 2014-01-28 17:15:12 -0500

ngrennan
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Hi,

I am doing the setup tutorial on the ros website (not allowing me to post links...) I'm running a fresh install of the Ubuntu 12.04 ROS image from NooTriX in VirtualBox right now.

My problem is on section 4.2 of the tutorial where it tells you to do:

rosws set ~/fuerte_workspace/sandbox

I am running groovy and made a different directory, so I did:

rosws set ~/groovy_workspace/sandbox

The error I get is:

viki@ROS:~$ rosws set ~/groovy_workspace/sandbox
ERROR in config: Command requires a target workspace.viki@ROS:~$

Does anyone know why this is happening? I've already done:

source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash

and

rosws init ~/fuerte_workspace /opt/ros/fuerte

and

source /home/viki/groovy_workspace/setup.bash

When I look at my ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, all I see is

:/opt/ros/groovy/share:/opt/ros/groovy/stacks

So I am guessing something is wrong with rosws adding the right directories to the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. Does anyone have any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

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answered 2013-02-12 13:32:00 -0500

jbohren

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updated 2013-02-12 14:30:36 -0500

There's a bug in rosws when used with groovy that makes it harder to roscd without arguments to get to your workspace. Instead, you need to cd ~/groovy_workspace and then you can execute rosws set.

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It seems like this makes rosws set work, but it seems like the ROS_WORKSPACE still remains unset.

w1res ( 2013-02-14 17:11:52 -0500 )edit

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Yes, you will need to manually export ROS_WORKSPACE until the bugfix gets out through the debian packages.

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answered 2013-02-13 02:28:56 -0500

KruseT

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After you run

 rosws init /home/viki/groovy_workspace /opt/ros/groovy
 source /home/viki/groovy_workspace/setup.bash

what you should get is:

$ echo $ROS_WORKSPACE
/home/viki/groovy_workspace
$ echo ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
/opt/ros/groovy/share:/opt/ros/groovy/stacks

due to bug already fixed but not released yet, ROS_WORKSPACE is not set. See: http://answers.ros.org/question/54871/no-ros_workspace-set-error/

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