Thanks Narasimhan - that helps a lot.. I had it working, but now I actually know what's going on.. - Floris On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Narasimhan Rajagopal < narasimhan1990@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > u won't run into any problem if u have done the following as given in > installation instructions page > http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN > > "You'll need to configure your environment to enable the tutorials, just > like you did with the ROS installation. The command below will automatically > load the environment variables in your bash shell: > > echo "source ~/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc > . ~/.bashrc > > If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, you can > type: > > source ~/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" > > > if u still have problem then just check that the last line of .bashrc > file has "source ~/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" > > and just make sure that ~/ros-tutorials/setup.sh file has the following > "export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/home/yourhomefolder/ros-tutorials/ros_tutorials:/home/yourhomefolder/ros-tutorials/ros_pkg_tutorials" > > where yourhomefolder is your login name. > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Floris van Breugel Caltech Graduate Student Control and Dynamical Systems (925) 963 8280 Wildlife and Landscape Photographer Galleries: http://www.ArtInNaturePhotography.com/ Blog: http://www.ArtInNaturePhotography.com/wordpress/ 2010 CALENDARS! Now available on my website!