[ros-users] Problem with a Package Installation

[Tinne De Laet]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:17, shahmi <alfarobi0161 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install the package "srl_people_tracker_0.2" found from
> "http://www.ros.org/browse/details.php?name=srl_people_tracker_0.2" for
> several days. Unfortunately, I have not yet got got it installed in my local
> machine.
>
> These are my tweaks and their corresponding output:
>
> shah at shah-laptop:~/Downloads$ svn co
> http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg/srl_people_tracker_0.2/
> A    srl_people_tracker_0.2/manifest.xml
> A    srl_people_tracker_0.2/CMakeLists.patch
> A    srl_people_tracker_0.2/CMakeLists.txt
> A    srl_people_tracker_0.2/Makefile
> Checked out revision 32522.
> shah at shah-laptop:~/Downloads$ cd srl_people_tracker_0.2/
> shah at shah-laptop:~/Downloads/srl_people_tracker_0.2$ ls
> CMakeLists.patch  CMakeLists.txt  Makefile  manifest.xml
> shah at shah-laptop:~/Downloads/srl_people_tracker_0.2$ cmake .
> -- The C compiler identification is GNU
> -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:4 (add_subdirectory):
>   add_subdirectory given source "srl_source" which is not an existing
>   directory.
>
>
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>
> It seems that it was complaining about "srl_source" but I've given so many
> tries by replacing the term "srl_source" with my "srl_people_tracker_0.2"
> directory which is /home/shah/Downloads/srl_people_tracker_0.2.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated..
>
>
Do not run just cmake, the code is not downloaded yet!
Just use the rosmake command:
rosmake srl_people_tracker_0.2
This will download the code and build and install everything.


Tinne

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