Re: [ros-users] Issue with rostopic pub

It should be geometry_msgs .. you missed the last 's'
rostopic pub -1 /turtle1/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist -- '[2.0, 0.0,
0.0]' '[0.0, 0.0, 1.8]'

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Jit Ray Chowdhury
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Davinci <davinci_mgs@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. I’m new in Ros, and needing some help to follow the tutorials.
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> When I type ( $ rostopic pub -1 /turtle1/cmd_vel geometry_msg/Twist
> -- `[2.0, 0.0, 0.0]´ ´[0.0, 0.0, 1.8] )
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>    The previous command sends a message to turtlesim  to move an linear
> velocity of 2.0 and an angular velocity of 1.8.

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> I get  this         ( ERROR: invalid message type: geometry_msg/Twist. )

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> Anibody cam tel me where did I go wrong?
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> I´m using ros hidro on ubuntu 12 lts, inside a virtualbox vm.
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> Thanks for all.
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