install individual stack

Question

I try to install individual stack according to guides at link ROS installation

I use this line:

sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-slam-gmapping

I had already installed Desktop-Full Install and want to install other stacks individually. Specifically, stacks I tried to install: robotino, robotino_kinect, simple_grasping and a few others but all failed

sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-robotino
sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-simple-grapsping
sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-robotino-kinect

errors:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-fuerte-robotino

What might be wrong here?? did I use the commands incorrectly??

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Originally posted by roskidos on ROS Answers with karma: 110 on 2012-10-06

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Original comments

Comment by Flowers on 2012-10-06:
You could try to install via svn(URL can be found in the wiki) or add the url of the source code to the apt-get install command...

Comment by roskidos on 2012-10-06:
@Flowers: I've just turned to use Ubuntu for 2 weeks and not sure what svn is. Could you tell me clearer? some code lines for example

Comment by roskidos on 2012-10-07:
I think ipso is right! I tried to install another stack with: apt-cache search ros-fuerte-pr2-simulator and it worked so smoothly

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-10-08:
apt-cache gives you information about packages. For information on svn (subversion), google will probably be helpful.

Comment by roskidos on 2012-10-12:
@Flowers: thanks for you help!! actually, I finally did it with svn for packages without debian files. simply checkout from svn to download the source files and build it with ccmake or rosmake. That's what I did

Answer 1

To use svn, first make sure it is installed: sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn then by: svn checkout http://svn.openrobotino.org/robotino-ros-pkg/trunk/robotino /home/ros_workspace/robotino you can download the package(of course you can replace /home/... by any path you want to install the package to, but make sure the path is in ROS_PACKAGE_PATH and ROS_WORKSPACE)..

afterwards you have the files in your folder and can run rosmake robotino...

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Originally posted by Flowers with karma: 342 on 2012-10-08

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Answer 2

I would use the excellent rosws tool. If you have followed the Fuerte installation instructions, you should already have it. This is the ideal way to find packages that aren't available through apt-get.

If not, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

You can then do the following:

# Initialize a workspace
rosws init ~/robotino_testing
Source that workspace
cd ~/robotino_testing && source ./setup.bash
Merge your OS install
rosws merge /opt/ros/fuerte
Find the robotino repository and merge it locally
roslocate info robotino | rosws merge -
roslocate info robotino_kinect | rosws merge -
roslocate info simple_grasping | rosws merge -
Update your workspace
rosws update

Now you can just rosmake the packages that you are interested in using.

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Originally posted by mjcarroll with karma: 6414 on 2012-10-08

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Original comments

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-10-08:
relevant wiki page.

Comment by Flowers on 2012-10-08:
I did not indicate to manage the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH and ROS_WORKSPACE by hand, it is part of the first tutorials to create a ROS_WORKSPACE...it was just additional information because tools like roscd won't find any package which is not part of the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH ^^

Comment by mjcarroll on 2012-10-09:
@Flowers, sorry! You are correct, and I have modified my answer.