Thinking about it the other option which I think would be clearer for 
people learning would be to suggest that people add ~/ros_tutorials to 
their ROS_PACKAGE_PATH.

Like so:
Assuming your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH is ~/ros/stacks:
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros/stacks:~/ros_tutorials

As to the editing you need to manually follow the "<<Include" macro's 
argument and edit that wiki page.

Tully


On 06/12/2010 04:59 PM, Floris van Breugel wrote:
> Yea that makes sense, and works too. Thanks!
>
> This would be relevant wiki page - I couldn't see how to edit the 
> 'tutorials' section at the bottom - 'edit text' just brought up the 
> the first section?
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN
>
> - Floris
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com 
> <mailto:tfoote@willowgarage.com>> wrote:
>
>     Bill's suggestion is what I would recommend too.  ROS_ROOT is
>     already in
>     your search path.  The tools won't get confused since ROS_ROOT
>     comes first.
>
>     Can you say which wiki pages you were following so they can be
>     updated?
>     Or feel free to update them yourself.
>
>     Tully
>
>     On 06/12/2010 03:03 PM, Bill Morris wrote:
>     > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 14:47 -0700, Floris van Breugel wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> I'm running Lucid, and followed the instructions online for the SVN
>     >> install. Doing so for the tutorials put the folder
>     'ros-tutorials' in
>     >> my home directory. That caused a variety of problems.. there's
>     >> probably many ways to fix it, but this ended up working for me:
>     >>
>     >> move 'ros-tutorials' to ~/ros (or wherever your main ros folder
>     is).
>     >>
>     >> edit ~/ros/setup.sh:
>     >> edit this line:     export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=INSTALL_PATH/ros/stacks
>     >> so that it reads: export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=INSTALL_PATH/ros
>     >>
>     > That probably will confuse some of the automated tools.
>     >
>     > Do not change ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, instead move ros-tutorials to
>     > ~/ros/stacks/.
>     >
>     >
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