PS: I just tried the same for a cturtle install, and it seemed to go
through without mercurial. So I'm guessing it's just unstable that
needs that?

Ivan

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the update/fix.
>
>  - Ken
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ivan Dryanovski
> <ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just tried installing from svn as per the ROS instructions page here:
>>
>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/unstable/Installation/Ubuntu/source
>>
>> Running this command:
>>
>> rosinstall ~/ros
>> "https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=unstable&variant=base&overlay=no"
>>
>> Resulted in the following error
>>
>> ERROR: woah, unknown installation method hg not installed, cannnot
>> create a hg vcs client
>>
>> I installed bzr and mercurial, and that fixed the error (I assume it
>> was just mercurial that was causing the problem). It seems that the
>> "Setup" stage of the wiki page (and the pages for all other distros)
>> need to be updated to include that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ivan
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