Patrick, please start a new thread for this rather than hijacking this one.
Thanks
Josh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Patrick Doyle <
wpdster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Deepak,
> I am a newcomer to ROS, having only heard about it last week. I
> believe that I will need to run the PR2 simulation environment for a
> course that I am taking and I would very much like to do so on my
> MacBook. From this email thread, it seems that you might be in the
> same situation.
>
> It seems to me that you are following some script in order to bring up
> ROS on your Mac. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?
>
> Can you tell me what script you are following? (It might be one of
> your own devising). I followed the "script" (i.e. installation
> instructions) given in the wiki at
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/OSX and started trying to
> step through the tutorials, but failed at the step that said:
>
> $ rosdep install turtle_teleop rxtools
>
> That step failed, trying to load bluez, libbluetooth-dev, etc...
>
> Keeping in mind that I am a complete newbie, it seems that I haven't
> even gotten to the step of trying to do anything specific for the PR2.
> This all seems to be very generic stuff, and I can't even get that to
> work.
>
> Since that time, I found some wiki pages specific to the PR2, and
> tried bringing up the PR2 environment inside a VMWare box (running
> Ubuntu), but it seems that the 3D rendering doesn't work. I have also
> just noticed (with great interest) your thread on the mailing list.
> It seems that you are trying to do the same thing.
>
> I wonder if (at least) I can learn from you and/or (at best) we could
> collaborate in making this work for each of us.
>
> Do you mind if I ask you what you mean by the opening line of your
> email post: "CTurtle is now successfully installed on Mac OS X 10.6"
> Do you mean that you followed the Mac OS X installation instructions
> and everything went fine? Or did you do something else? Did you step
> through the tutorials? Did you run into and/or avoid and/or solve the
> dependency issues for turtle_teleop?
>
> I'm sorry for asking you so many questions...but right now I don't
> know what I don't know
>
> --wpd
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