I ran into this error earlier, I started playing around with different
variants and distros in the url, but after a bit the original command
started working for me, I just figured someone was fixing/updating
something.

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William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w@auburn.edu
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bellens <
steven.bellens@mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The svn install of ROS Diamondback fails with the error message:
>
> $ rosinstall ~/ros
> "
> https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no
> "
> rosinstall operating on /home/u0063509/ros from specifications in
> rosinstall files
>
> https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no
> ahhhhhhhh, yaml parse error: while scanning for the next token
> found character '\t' that cannot start any token
>  in "<file>", line 7, column 1
> Usage: rosinstall PATH [URI] [options]
>
> rosinstall: error: None
>
> Looks like a typo in the rosinstall script?
>
> Steven
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