Hi,

Yes on lenny you get python 2.5 and for this you need python 2.6 at least.

Installing ros on lenny was a bit of a pain (well in our case). If you
uprgade to the latest debian, then it should make your life a LOT easier
with ROS :)

Cheers,

Ugo

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Taylor Veltrop <taylor@veltrop.com> wrote:

> Embarrassed to say that I can't get the newest rosinstall working on my
> machine, using Debian lenny 5.0.8 and the standard source based install
> instructions at http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Debian.
>  Python version is 2.5.2.
>
> Executed:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential python-yaml cmake subversion wget
> python-setuptools
> and:
> sudo easy_install -U rosinstall
>
> When I run:
> rosinstall ~/ros "
> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=base&overlay=no
> "
>
> Here is the output:
> veltrobot:~ $ rosinstall ~/ros "
> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=ros_only&overlay=no
> "
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py:49:
> Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 5, in <module>
>     pkg_resources.run_script('rosinstall==0.5.15', 'rosinstall')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 448, in
> run_script
>     self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1173, in
> run_script
>     exec script_code in namespace, namespace
>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 28, in <module>
>
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py",
> line 49
>     with open(os.devnull, 'w') as fnull:
>             ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> If I download the old http://www.ros.org/rosinstall and do a
> ./rosinstall ~/ros "http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/cturtle_base.rosinstall
> "
> then it all works out fine as it used to.
>
> I found an old thread with the same error message from an ArchLinux user.
>  They fixed it by changing a python 3 symlink to a 2.7 symlink.  That does
> not apply in my case.
>
> Sorry if this has been covered before, I feel like it's something obvious
> but I haven't been able to find a solution.
>
> Is Debian lenny's python the problem?
>
>
> Taylor Veltrop
>
>
>
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