Re: [ros-users] Mac OSX Install

As a general comment, I wouldn't attempt installing 'pr2all' on OS X.
I would probably use 'base' or do something even more targeted.
'pr2all' is mainly targeted for people using the PR2; the PR2
libraries are developed and designed for Ubuntu.

- Ken

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> I ran into the same problem yesterday when I attempted to install ROS
> on my MacBook.  I solved it by doing:
>
> $ sudo easy_install -U pyyaml
>
> After doing that, I was able to run rosinstall.  Unfortunately, when I
> tried running:
>
> $ rosinstall ~/ros http://ros.org/rosinstalls/cturtle_pr2all.rosinstall
>
> I got a subversion error.  I worked around that by creating (and
> mounting) a disk image file which preserved the case and pointed my
> rosinstall there.
>
> Now, I'm getting the following error as I step through the tutorial:
>
> $ rosdep install turtle_teleop rxtools
> Failed to find rosdep bluez for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libbluetooth-dev for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep python-bluez for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libx11-dev for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep flex for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libusb for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep bison for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep joystick for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> ERROR: ABORTING: Rosdeps [u'bluez', u'libbluetooth-dev',
> u'python-bluez', u'libx11-dev', u'flex', u'libusb', u'bison',
> u'joystick'] could not be resolved
>
> To me, this looks like I need to install flex, bison, and some more
> packages.  Hmmm... I already have flex and bison installed (in
> MacPorts), and I'm not sure that I'm going to find packages like
> libusb or libbluetooth-dev in MacPorts (although I haven't tried
> looking yet).
>
> So I have 4 questions:
> 1) Is anybody else running ROS in MAC OS X (10.6.4)
> 2) If so, how did you get things to work?
> 3) If so, did you run through the tutorial successfully?
> 4) How does one search the mailing list archives?  When I plug in
> something like "OS X" into the search engine at
> https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users, I get "  No results matched
> the query OS X".  Chris mentioned that OS X issues have been mentioned
> previously on the list.  How would I find those?
>
> --wpd
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