On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ken Conley wrote: > 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 >>> "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. That looks good to me. It should help. --  joq