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