Bill's suggestion is what I would recommend too.  ROS_ROOT is already in 
your search path.  The tools won't get confused since ROS_ROOT comes first.

Can you say which wiki pages you were following so they can be updated? 
Or feel free to update them yourself.

Tully

On 06/12/2010 03:03 PM, Bill Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 14:47 -0700, Floris van Breugel wrote:
>
>    
>> I'm running Lucid, and followed the instructions online for the SVN
>> install. Doing so for the tutorials put the folder 'ros-tutorials' in
>> my home directory. That caused a variety of problems.. there's
>> probably many ways to fix it, but this ended up working for me:
>>
>> move 'ros-tutorials' to ~/ros (or wherever your main ros folder is).
>>
>> edit ~/ros/setup.sh:
>> edit this line:     export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=INSTALL_PATH/ros/stacks
>> so that it reads: export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=INSTALL_PATH/ros
>>      
> That probably will confuse some of the automated tools.
>
> Do not change ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, instead move ros-tutorials to
> ~/ros/stacks/.
>
>
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