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

[Chris Bersch]

Hey all,

is there a list of distros/variants  similar to the old rosinstall files in
cturtle (http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/)? I tried to install the
diamondback PR2 stacks from source and  found that

rosinstall ~/workspace/cturtle_pr2_svn "
http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=pr2-desktop&overlay=no"


did what I wanted. But this was just guesswork as the debian package listed
in the PR2 install instruction is similarly called
ros-diamondback-pr2-desktop. It would be great to have a (documented) list
for these.

Best

-Chris



On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Currently we use a rosinstall generator for the source based install
> instructions [1] which you could reuse. They use a server side generator at
> this url:
>
>
> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no
>
> Where it supports variants in the rosdistro files as defined by REP 108 [2]
> for diamondback.  And the overlay option says whether to generate the full
> dependency list or just the variant requested.
>
> We are working on a tool to make this much cleaner.  Hopefully this can be
> helpful for now.
>
> Tully
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Ubuntu/Source
> [2] http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0108.html
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 at 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 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Tom Birch <froody at 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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