Hi Josh, I didn't think that rosinstall compiled anything, but now that you mention, it seems pretty obvious that it must compile some of the most basic utilities (i.e. roscd, rosmake, etc). Am I wrong? And in case those are compiled by rosinstall, which would be the best way to compile them if you specify "--nobuild" option? I can see there's an "--update" option for rosinstall, would this be the way? Regards, Miguel. El mié, 26-05-2010 a las 12:07 -0700, Josh Faust escribió: > Hi Narasimhan, > > If you modify the rosinstall invokation to include "--nobuild", I > believe it will just download the source from svn and not try to > build. You should then be able to copy the files to your usb key. It > won't affect anything outside the directory you specify on the command > line (in the examples on that page, ~/ros). > > Josh > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Narasimhan Rajagopal > wrote: > now i don't want to screw my already installed ros and i don't > want two diff versions in my pc. so here's what i'm gonna do. > > 1. i follow Miguel Prada's advice and install using svn method > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN ) and > follow till step 1.2. > > 2. then i copy the directory of the source code to my usb > drive > > 3. i'll copy the files from usb to the college pc(running > debian) > > 4. i'll continue the steps after 1.2. > > 5. i delete the directory from my home pc. > > so if i follow these steps my original ros will be intact > right? or should i run some commands to set it right. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users