Thanks for the reply.I installed the gps_umd using git version control clone command.I was able to install the dependencies also for it.But when i am trying to build the package it fails and gives the following errors [ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['gps_umd'] [ rosmake ] Logging to directory/home/avinash/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20110210-002619 [ rosmake ] Expanded args ['gps_umd'] to: ['gpsd_client', 'gps_common'] [ rosmake ] Checking rosdeps compliance for packages gps_umd. This may take a few seconds. [ rosmake ] rosdep check passed all system dependencies in packages [rosmake-0] Starting >>> roslang [ make ] [rosmake-0] Finished <<< roslang ROS_NOBUILD in package roslang No Makefile in package roslang [rosmake-1] Starting >>> roslib [ make ] [rosmake-1] Finished <<< roslib ROS_NOBUILD in package roslib [rosmake-2] Starting >>> xmlrpcpp [ make ] [rosmake-2] Finished <<< xmlrpcpp ROS_NOBUILD in package xmlrpcpp [rosmake-1] Starting >>> rosconsole [ make ] [rosmake-0] Starting >>> rospy [ make ] [rosmake-2] Starting >>> rosclean [ make ] [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rosgraph [ make ] [rosmake-1] Finished <<< rosconsole ROS_NOBUILD in package rosconsole [rosmake-2] Finished <<< rosclean ROS_NOBUILD in package rosclean [rosmake-1] Starting >>> roscpp [ make ] [rosmake-2] Starting >>> std_msgs [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rosgraph ROS_NOBUILD in package rosgraph [rosmake-0] Finished <<< rospy ROS_NOBUILD in package rospy [rosmake-1] Finished <<< roscpp ROS_NOBUILD in package roscpp [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rosmaster [ make ] [rosmake-1] Starting >>> rosout [ make ] [rosmake-2] Finished <<< std_msgs ROS_NOBUILD in package std_msgs [rosmake-1] Finished <<< rosout ROS_NOBUILD in package rosout [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rosmaster ROS_NOBUILD in package rosmaster [rosmake-3] Starting >>> roslaunch [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< roslaunch ROS_NOBUILD in package roslaunch No Makefile in package roslaunch [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rostest [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rostest ROS_NOBUILD in package rostest [rosmake-3] Starting >>> topic_tools [ make ] [rosmake-0] Starting >>> message_filters [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< topic_tools ROS_NOBUILD in package topic_tools [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rosbag [ make ] [rosmake-0] Finished <<< message_filters ROS_NOBUILD in package message_filters [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rosbag ROS_NOBUILD in package rosbag [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rosrecord [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rosrecord ROS_NOBUILD in package rosrecord [rosmake-3] Starting >>> rosbagmigration [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< rosbagmigration ROS_NOBUILD in package rosbagmigration No Makefile in package rosbagmigration [rosmake-3] Starting >>> geometry_msgs [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< geometry_msgs ROS_NOBUILD in package geometry_msgs [rosmake-1] Starting >>> sensor_msgs [ make ] [rosmake-1] Finished <<< sensor_msgs ROS_NOBUILD in package sensor_msgs [rosmake-3] Starting >>> nav_msgs [ make ] [rosmake-3] Finished <<< nav_msgs ROS_NOBUILD in package nav_msgs [rosmake-3] Starting >>> gps_common [ make ] rosmake ] All 2 lines {------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mkdir: cannot create directory `build': Permission denied -------------------------------------------------------------------------------} [ rosmake ] Output from build of package gps_common written to: [ rosmake ] /home/avinash/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20110210-002619/gps_common/build_output.log [rosmake-3] Finished <<< gps_common [FAIL] [ 0.02 seconds ] [ rosmake ] Halting due to failure in package gps_common. [ rosmake ] Waiting for other threads to complete. [ rosmake ] Results: [ rosmake ] Built 24 packages with 1 failures. [ rosmake ] Summary output to directory [ rosmake ] /home/avinash/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20110210-002619 Could you please help me find where I am doing it wrong.Thanking you On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Ken Tossell wrote: > Hi, > > Our repository has been rearranged since that tutorial was written. > The new address for the gps_umd stack is > http://ram.umd.edu/git/ros/gps_umd.git > > http://www.ros.org/wiki/umd-ros-pkg has some instructions for checking > out the umd-ros-pkg stacks using rosinstall. > > - Ken > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Regards Avinash Thiruvayipati Graduate Student Electrical Engineering Arizona State University 734-985-1155