Re: [ros-users] Help installing third party stacks/packages

There is work in this area, but it's more complicated than it seems.

- Ken

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tom Birch <froody@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah thanks! This really seems like something rosinstall should be doing.
>
> cheers,
> Tom
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Tom Birch <froody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That works fine if it's a package with no unsatisfied dependences, but
>> > installing other stacks/packages like say, the kinematics package
>> > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinematics) then I have to manually checkout
>> all of
>> > those dependencies.
>> > I can see that roslocate can tell me where to checkout a package from,
>> but I
>> > don't understand how to feed that into rosinstall. Do I just do
>> "roslocate
>> > info $packagename > foo.rosinstall; rosinstall /path/to/install
>> > file://`pwd`/foo.rosinstall"?
>> > I found the install scripts at http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/ but that
>> > seems rather hacky, is this the recommended way of doing things? If so,
>> why
>> > are there no diamondback files there?
>> > I'd really appreciate someone taking the time to explain this to me,
>> because
>> > really none of it makes sense, and the wiki seems to imply that it's
>> trivial
>> > to get stacks/packages listed on the wiki.
>>
>> There is a relatively detailed explanation here...
>>
>> http://answers.ros.org/question/165/for-new-package-downloading
>> --
>> joq
>>
>
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