Mark,
What you're doing exactly is the goal, your url is too short.  You 
should be using 
http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/boxturtle_tutorials.rosinstall


Tully

PS I look forward to having an X10 interface.


On 07/15/2010 05:36 AM, Mark Worsdall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Latest installed as using to help with another package:
> Cheap Plug alert:-) http://tinyurl.com/35os2s8
>
>
> Now I want to do my own package so thought best to download and install
> the Tutorials but after following the instructions I got the following
> errors which I assume are because the tutorials are for only boxturtle?
>
> ros@jilldando:~$ ~/rosinstall -o ~/ros-tutorials
> http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/ros/rosinstall", line 326, in<module>
>      sys.exit(rosinstall_main(sys.argv) or 0)
>    File "/home/ros/rosinstall", line 310, in rosinstall_main
>      config = Config(y, options.path)
>    File "/home/ros/rosinstall", line 77, in __init__
>      for k, v in t.iteritems():
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'iteritems'
>
>
>
>
> I was going to try and do the above without the -o but did not want to
> mess up my working ROS and shadow_hand installations, which are now
> working on my debian squeeze box.
>
>
>
> My first package is to allow ROS to send and get X10 info via the heyu
> package http://www.heyu.org/ as it is extremely important for my robot
> to have access to this world.
>
> On my current setup I just have perl scripts doing the heyu stuff, very
> simply stuff.
>
> But this is for a later discussion, for now do I have to have 2
> different ROS on my box?? (please guru's let the answer be no) ;-)
>
>
> M.
>
>