[ros-users] ROS Wiki: Installation instructions bug

Ken Conley kwc at willowgarage.com
Mon Jan 24 17:09:44 UTC 2011


Thanks for the update/fix.

 - Ken

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ivan Dryanovski
<ivan.dryanovski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just tried installing from svn as per the ROS instructions page here:
>
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/unstable/Installation/Ubuntu/source
>
> Running this command:
>
> rosinstall ~/ros
> "https://code.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=unstable&variant=base&overlay=no"
>
> Resulted in the following error
>
> ERROR: woah, unknown installation method hg not installed, cannnot
> create a hg vcs client
>
> I installed bzr and mercurial, and that fixed the error (I assume it
> was just mercurial that was causing the problem). It seems that the
> "Setup" stage of the wiki page (and the pages for all other distros)
> need to be updated to include that.
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
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