Ok, looks like I'll have to do a dist upgrade.

Wow, I didn't know that squeeze was officially released!

Thanks for the heads up Ugo!

On Feb 14, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Ugo Cupcic wrote:

> 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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