[ros-users] problem using ros_tutorials

Jack O'Quin jack.oquin at gmail.com
Fri May 14 21:21:43 UTC 2010


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Michael Styer <michael at styer.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, Felix. I found the real problem just now,
> though. I was running rosinstall under sudo, and sudo wasn't preserving
> $ROS_ROOT, so rosinstall failed to create setup.sh. Adding env_keep=* to
> the Defaults section in /etc/sudoers did the trick.

Running it under sudo is probably a bad idea.

Why are you doing that?
-- 
 joq



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