Dear Tully,

Here is the error I get when trying to run rosdep install robot_model:

rosdep install robot_model
Warning: could not identify ['robot_model'] as a package
Usage: rosdep [options] <command> <args>

Commands:

rosdep generate_bash  <packages>...
rosdep satisfy <packages>...
   will try to generate a bash script which will satisfy the
   dependencies of package(s) on your operating system.

rosdep install <packages>...
   will generate a bash script and then execute it.

rosdep depdb <packages>...
   will generate the dependency database for package(s) and print
   it to the console (note that the database will change depending
   on which package(s) you query.

rosdep what_needs <rosdeps>...
   will print a list of packages that declare a rosdep on (at least
   one of) ROSDEP_NAME[S]

rosdep where_defined <rosdeps>...
   will print a list of yaml files that declare a rosdep on (at least
   one of) ROSDEP_NAME[S]

rosdep check <packages>...
   will check if the dependencies of package(s) have been met.


rosdep: error: No Valid Packages listed


When I try to run: rosmake robot_model, I get the following error:
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['robot_model']
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory
[ rosmake ] /home/hand/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20100324-174008
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['robot_model'] to:
[]
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or 
packages: ['robot_model']
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or 
stack names.




To set up my environment:
- I ran the rosinstall command: ~/rosinstall ~/ros
http://ros.org/rosinstalls/boxturtle_base.rosinstall
- then make in ~/ros/ros
- then exported the different variables for ros to my .bashrc.
- then 'rosmake roscpp' and 'rosmake rospy' and 'rosmake std_msgs'
The roscore is working fine, I have access to rxconsole, etc...

Cheers,

Ugo

Tully Foote wrote:
> Ugo,
> Can you provide the specific error with context leading up to getting 
> it(such as setting up your environment)?  I'm not sure what kind of "not 
> found error" you are getting?
> 
> Tully
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com 
> <mailto:ugo@shadowrobot.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Tully,
> 
>     Thanks for your answer. The weird thing is that I already installed the
>     boxturtle_base one (running : ~/rosinstall ~/ros
>     http://ros.org/rosinstalls/boxturtle_base.rosinstall).
> 
>     I tried both those commands (and the same ones with urdf / kdl) but each
>     time it said the package was not found :S
>     rosdep install robot_model
>     rosmake robot_model
> 
>     Any ideas ?
> 
>     By the way, I'm on debian.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Ugo
> 
>     Tully Foote wrote:
>      > Ugo,
>      > You can install any stack individually.  The urdf parsing is in the
>      > robot_model stack and kdl is in the geometry stack.
>      >
>      > Both are in the boxturtle base installation which doesn't pull
>     anything
>      > pr2 specific.  See http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu
>      >
>      > If you want a truly minimal set you can pull only the stacks up
>     to that
>      > level. To do that I recommend trimming the boxturtle base rosinstall
>      > file at http://ros.org/rosinstalls/boxturtle_base.rosinstall to only
>      > have the following stacks
>      >
>      > {{{
>      > $ rosstack depends robot_model
>      > ros
>      > common_msgs
>      > common
>      > geometry
>      > }}}
>      >
>      > However I would recommend just pulling the boxturtle base install
>      > http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu
>      >
>      > And if you're on Ubuntu you could also use the debian based
>     install and
>      > just install ros-boxturtle-robot-model package.
>      >
>      > Tully
>      >
>      > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com
>     <mailto:ugo@shadowrobot.com>
>      > <mailto:ugo@shadowrobot.com <mailto:ugo@shadowrobot.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi all,
>      >
>      >     Is it possible to install urdf and kdl for ros, without having to
>      >     install the whole pr2 stuff? (if yes, how can I do that ?)
>      >
>      >     Cheers,
>      >
>      >     Ugo
>      >
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