2011/2/3 Steven Bellens <steven.bellens@mech.kuleuven.be>:
> 2011/2/3 William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>:
>> I ran into this error earlier, I started playing around with different
>> variants and distros in the url, but after a bit the original command
>> started working for me, I just figured someone was fixing/updating
>> something.
>
> update: I can get a ros-full installation using:
>
> rosinstall diamondback/
> "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=ros-full&overlay=no"
> (note the http://packages.ros.org instead of https://code.ros.org)
>
> desktop-full is not working that way either.

As said in this thread:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/11926

There is a necessary dependency on mercurial for non-ubuntu distro's.
I've updated the Fedora Wiki page accordingly and mentioned it on the
other distro pages as well.

Steven


>
> Steven
>
>
>> --
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> William Woodall
>> Graduate Software Engineering
>> Auburn University
>> w@auburn.edu
>> wjwwood@gmail.com
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bellens
>> <steven.bellens@mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The svn install of ROS Diamondback fails with the error message:
>>>
>>> $ rosinstall ~/ros
>>>
>>> "https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no"
>>> rosinstall operating on /home/u0063509/ros from specifications in
>>> rosinstall files
>>>
>>> https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no
>>> ahhhhhhhh, yaml parse error: while scanning for the next token
>>> found character '\t' that cannot start any token
>>>  in "<file>", line 7, column 1
>>> Usage: rosinstall PATH [URI] [options]
>>>
>>> rosinstall: error: None
>>>
>>> Looks like a typo in the rosinstall script?
>>>
>>> Steven
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