[ros-users] rosinstall problems on Debian

Tue Feb 15 12:46:17 UTC 2011

I agree with boost,
I don't know what is stated for log4cxx but what you suggest seems correct.
I'll post a patch for it tonight

2011/2/15 Taylor Veltrop <taylor at veltrop.com>

> Correction, it was initially linked to gcc 4.4.
>
> Also, the Debian Squeeze dependencies for boost and log4cxx should be set
> to libboost1.42-all-dev liblog4cxx10-dev
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Taylor Veltrop wrote:
>
> After upgrading to Debian 6.0 the rosinstall script works fine.
>
> The new problem is that nothing would compile: "gcc fails to compile simple
> program"
>
> gcc was linked to gcc-4.3 so I had to do a rm /usr/bin/gcc and ln -s
> /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc
> Is there a more correct way of doing this?
>
> Now things seem to be moving along.
>
> This happened with both cturtle and diamondback by the way.
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Willy Lambert wrote:
>
> Debian installation is quite new and might not work on every installation
> (that's why there is a WORK IN PROGRESS on top of it ;) ). Please do not
> hesitate to share your problem here, you'll receive help and you'll help
> Debian becoming a fully working installation.
>
> Yes Squeeze is officially a stable version for a week, so now, lenny may be
> (IMO) considered as an "old install".
>
> If you dare, I suggest you to try the next coming version of ROS because
> dependencies are better managed. It is currently in a release candidate
> state, so it's close to be the new newest version.
>
>
>
>
> 2011/2/14 Taylor Veltrop <taylor at veltrop.com>
>
>> Ok, looks like I'll have to do a dist upgrade.
>>
>> Wow, I didn't know that squeeze was officially released!
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up Ugo!
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Ugo Cupcic wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes on lenny you get python 2.5 and for this you need python 2.6 at least.
>>
>> Installing ros on lenny was a bit of a pain (well in our case). If you
>> uprgade to the latest debian, then it should make your life a LOT easier
>> with ROS :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ugo
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Taylor Veltrop <taylor at veltrop.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Embarrassed to say that I can't get the newest rosinstall working on my
>>> machine, using Debian lenny 5.0.8 and the standard source based install
>>> instructions at http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Debian.
>>>  Python version is 2.5.2.
>>>
>>> Executed:
>>> sudo apt-get install build-essential python-yaml cmake subversion wget
>>> python-setuptools
>>> and:
>>> sudo easy_install -U rosinstall
>>>
>>> When I run:
>>> rosinstall ~/ros "
>>> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=base&overlay=no
>>> "
>>>
>>> Here is the output:
>>> veltrobot:~ $ rosinstall ~/ros "
>>> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=ros_only&overlay=no
>>> "
>>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py:49:
>>> Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 5, in <module>
>>>     pkg_resources.run_script('rosinstall==0.5.15', 'rosinstall')
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 448, in
>>> run_script
>>>     self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1173, in
>>> run_script
>>>     exec script_code in namespace, namespace
>>>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 28, in <module>
>>>
>>>   File
>>> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py",
>>> line 49
>>>     with open(os.devnull, 'w') as fnull:
>>>             ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
>>> If I download the old http://www.ros.org/rosinstall and do a
>>> ./rosinstall ~/ros "
>>> http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/cturtle_base.rosinstall"
>>> then it all works out fine as it used to.
>>>
>>> I found an old thread with the same error message from an ArchLinux user.
>>>  They fixed it by changing a python 3 symlink to a 2.7 symlink.  That does
>>> not apply in my case.
>>>
>>> Sorry if this has been covered before, I feel like it's something obvious
>>> but I haven't been able to find a solution.
>>>
>>> Is Debian lenny's python the problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Taylor Veltrop
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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