In general, I would recommend the Deb-based install rather than SVN install.
You're guaranteed a good install, and it's also much more efficient to build
packages on top.

I'm assuming that your install failed in some way. To verify, can you type:

"rosmake tf"

and post any errors?

 - Ken

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Sam Quintanar <robosq@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Ken,
>
> When installing ROS from the link you mentioned below, I chose Ubuntu Linux <http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu> and then chose SVN
>
> (download-and-compile) install <http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN> .
>
> Everything seemed to compile ok and all the beginners tutorials ran fine until the roswtf tutorial.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Sam Q (linux newbie)
>
> >Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:55:28 -0700
>
> >From: Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com>
> >Subject: Re: [ros-users] roswtf issue
> >To: ros-users@code.ros.org
>
> >Message-ID:
> >	<AANLkTi=aGx5bjbaqHxe6J3Q49JLX=ymu2ZLi0Ny9kNuz@mail.gmail.com>
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>
> >Hi Sam,
>
> >Which of the installation methods described here [1] did you use when
> >installing ROS?
>
> >[1]: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation
>
>
> >The reason I ask is that sort of error should only occur if your tf package
> >is not built correctly. As tf is one of the base packages that is installed
> >with ROS, it's unusual that you would be getting this error, unless the
>
> >installation did not occur correctly.
>
> > - Ken
>
> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Sam Quintanar <robosq@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  When doing the ROS tutorial at URL:
>
> > http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials/Getting%20started%20with%20roswtf,
> >
> > There is a message below that bothersome (highlighted in red).
>
> > Is it ok to ignore this?
> > If not, what should I do about it?
> > What does the tf package do?
> >
> >
> > sam@sam-laptop:~/ros/ros$ roswtf
> > *Unable to load plugin [tf.tfwtf] from package [tf]*
>
> > Stack: ros
> >
> > ================================================================================
> > Static checks summary:
> >
> > No errors or warnings
> >
> > ================================================================================
>
> > Beginning tests of your ROS graph. These may take awhile...
> > analyzing graph...
> > ... done analyzing graph
> > running graph rules...
> > ... done running graph rules
> >
> > Online checks summary:
>
> >
> > No errors or warnings
> >
> >
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