[ros-users] help with updating pre-built ROS

[Jeremy Leibs]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Adam Leeper <aleeper at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi all-
> This might be an obvious question but I couldn't find it in a search:
> If I am using a boxturtle or latest pre-built, what is the right way to
> update? Do I do "sudo apt-get install ros-boxturtle-pr2" again? Does it need
> to re-download all packages again, and will it keep from accumulating old
> versions? Is there a more efficient method? (I mean, besides SVN-based
> download and compile :)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-boxturtle-pr2

Should have the correct behavior.  It will re-download all the
packages.  We apologize for the large size for the moment.   It will
not accumulate old versions.  You can have side-by-side installations
of different releases, e.g., boxturtle and latest, but you cannot have
side-by-side installations of different versions of boxturtle (unless
you do it manually through svn).

--Jeremy