Those lines are not meant to be inserted into your .bashrc. So:
1) open up a terminal
2) type those four lines
and everything should work thereafter.
- Bhaskara
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Quintanar <
robosq@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Everything concerning ROS installation ran great on day 1.
> On day two, I logged into Ubuntu 10.04 and then opened a terminal with
> command "gnome-terminal" only to watch the terminal hang and it worked fine
> before I added the following as per ROS instructions:
>
> echo "source /home/sam/ros/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
> . ~/.bashrc
>
> echo "source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
> . ~/.bashrc.
>
> I opened the bashrc file in my home dir and found that it generated an
> infinite number of
> "source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" strings in the file appearing
> after my last entry above.
>
> I removed the 4 lines I added above and the terminal opened fine, but now I
> must manually type into the terminal prompt:
> source /home/sam/ros/setup.sh
> source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh
>
> and all is well, but it would be nice to have the .bashrc automatically do
> this instead of my manually doing it repeatedly.
>
> I'm not well versed with bash or terminal usage yet (new to Linux), so
> maybe I've don't something wrong.
>
> Please advise.
>
> SamQ
>
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