Hey,

I think you should use the patch included in this post:
https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20101004.081839.e1ffc158.gl.html

Cheers,

Ugo

On 18/10/10 11:59, Juergen Hess wrote:
> Hi all,
> does rosinstall work fine for you in Ubuntu 10.10 or did you install ROS 
> another way?
>
> I tried following the tutorial at:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN
> but then get the following error when calling rosinstall:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/bin/rosinstall", line 4, in <module>
>      import pkg_resources
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2671, 
> in <module>
>      working_set.require(__requires__)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 654, 
> in require
>      needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 552, 
> in resolve
>      raise DistributionNotFound(req)
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: rosinstall==0.5.8
>
> Did you experience this problem also?
> Thanks
>
> Juergen
>
>
> On 10/14/2010 02:07 PM, Aaron Martinez Romero wrote:
>> Thanks Tinne,
>>
>> I used your patch and the instalation works in Ubuntu 10.10 using the svn.
>>
>> Best regards...
>>
>>
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