It turned out to be a permission problem.

As a user I was able to call rosinstall but rosinstall was not allowed 
to read the following directory:
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rosinstall-0.5.8-py2.6.egg

Everything worked from there..

Juergen


On 10/18/2010 01:25 PM, Ugo Cupcic wrote:
>   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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>>> Atentamente,
>>> Aarón Martínez Romero
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>>> http://www.AaronMR.com
>>>
>>>
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