Correction, it was initially linked to gcc 4.4. Also, the Debian Squeeze dependencies for boost and log4cxx should be set to libboost1.42-all-dev liblog4cxx10-dev On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Taylor Veltrop wrote: > After upgrading to Debian 6.0 the rosinstall script works fine. > > The new problem is that nothing would compile: "gcc fails to compile > simple program" > > gcc was linked to gcc-4.3 so I had to do a rm /usr/bin/gcc and ln - > s /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc > Is there a more correct way of doing this? > > Now things seem to be moving along. > > This happened with both cturtle and diamondback by the way. > > On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Willy Lambert wrote: > >> Debian installation is quite new and might not work on every >> installation (that's why there is a WORK IN PROGRESS on top of >> it ;) ). Please do not hesitate to share your problem here, you'll >> receive help and you'll help Debian becoming a fully working >> installation. >> >> Yes Squeeze is officially a stable version for a week, so now, >> lenny may be (IMO) considered as an "old install". >> >> If you dare, I suggest you to try the next coming version of ROS >> because dependencies are better managed. It is currently in a >> release candidate state, so it's close to be the new newest version. >> >> >> >> >> 2011/2/14 Taylor Veltrop >> 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 >>> 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 >>> 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 >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ugo Cupcic | Shadow Robot Company | ugo@shadowrobot.com >>> Software Engineer | 251 Liverpool Road | >>> need a Hand? | London N1 1LX | +44 20 7700 2487 >>> http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand/ @shadowrobot >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >