On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jack O'Quin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Ken Conley wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Jack O'Quin wrote: >>> There have been several questions on answers.ros.org which suggest >>> that the Fuerte Ubuntu install instructions[1] need to mention the new >>> versions of rosinstall, rosdep, rosemacs, etc. >> >> Can you point out specific questions? I've scanned through and can't >> get enough context to address these issues. > >  http://answers.ros.org/question/32875/rosdep-command-not-found > >> The rosemacs page already documents how to get the new version.  I >> added a note to the fuerte page to more specifically call out that it >> is a separate tool.  I also added explicit installation sections to >> rosdep and rosinstall wiki pages (previously you had to jump through >> to the sphinx docs). > > Emacs users can figure out what to do once they realize it's no longer > in the ROS install tree. > >>> The source install instructions[2] do mention rosdep in passing, but I >>> see nothing clearly stating exactly what pip installs are required for >>> people to develop code based on Fuerte binaries. >> >> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Ubuntu/Source#fuerte.2BAC8-Installation.2BAC8-rosinstall.rosinstall >> >> "sudo easy_install -U rosinstall vcstools rospkg rosdep" >> >> I'm not sure I understand the comment well enough to document anything >> different (or where to add more breadcrumbs for people to find the >> documentation they are looking for).  The above is basically the union >> of the rosinstall and rosdep installation instructions (NOTE: rospkg >> is installed if you have Fuerte binaries). > > I'm not sure, either. People who install ROS core from binaries, but > use or develop other source packages need to know about some pip > installs. They do not appear on the Ubuntu install page. I understand a little better now. I added a "Standalone tools" section to the Ubuntu binary install page [1] that gives an easy_install command for rosinstall and rosdep (rospkg is provided in the Fuerte binary, though is safely overrideable with pip/easy_install). As all other install instructions are source-based and thus have you install those tools, this will hopefully be sufficient for getting people set up. Thanks for pointing this out. - Ken [1]: http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Ubuntu > -- >  joq > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users