Hi Tully,

Thank you, I had that version already but did not think to use that for 
the amd64 install as I am doing a blog of all this so wanted the best 
solutions for anyone else doing it my way. Have made a note not to be 
tempted to download the 0.5.6 tar.gz and extract rosinstall from that as 
I did. I have put you 1st two suggestions in the blog.

I had looked at the bugfix from my 32bit install when I fist came across 
that problem... Its still not fixed, so went the 0.5.5 rosinstall way 
and thats working. Cheers.


In message 
<AANLkTikfArUgiCs21c_cgVdR87d8XZt4L4ZBR8c9SkLK@mail.gmail.com>, Tully 
Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com> writes
>Mark, 
>That error comes from using the new version of rosinstall which
>requires it's libraries to be in your package path, it can't be just
>copied in as a script.  The old version was just a script, you can find
>it here 
>https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/installers/trunk/rosinstall/rosinstall 
>
>The other suggestion I have is that you download the tar.gz of
>rosinstall and manually install it from
>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rosinstall if easy_install is still not
>working.  
>
>If you have python-defaults/2.6.5-11 or newer easy_install should be
>working now according to the ticket 
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591606 
>
>Tully
>
>On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Mark Worsdall <code.ros.org@
>wizdom.org.uk> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I know debian is not supported but with this lists help I got it
>  running
>  on my p4 3GHz, 32bit debian box.
>
>  Unfortuntely it was not beefy enough to run the Shadow Robot Arm
>  gazebo
>  simulation. This has forced me to move up my migration to my other
>  box,
>  a Debian AMD64 job. Again testing
>
>
>  So using my previous knowledge and knowing easy_install wont work I
>  did
>  the following, but get the error when running rosinstall:
>
>
>  sudo apt-get update
>  sudo apt-get install bzr build-essential python-yaml cmake \
>                       subversion wget python-setuptools
>  ~/rosinstall ~/ros
>  http://ros.org/rosinstalls/cturtle_pr2all.rosinstall
>
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/mark/rosinstall", line 27, in <module>
>      import rosinstall.helpers
>  ImportError: No module named rosinstall.helpers
>
>
>  Any ideas?
>
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