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.deb installing to the wrong place? #25

Closed diecastzinc closed 10 years ago

diecastzinc commented 10 years ago

Installing from debs, my moveit_commander_cmdline.py is in /opt/ros/hydro/lib/moveit_commander/, not /opt/ros/hydro/lib/python2.7/dist-packages with the rest of the scripts.

As a result, rosrun moveit_commander moveit_commander_cmdline.py doesn't work.

mikeferguson commented 10 years ago

rosrun won't look in dist-packages, thats for things you want to find through the python path -- it looks in /opt/ros//lib/ -- so the location you mention is the correct one -- what is the error that you get when trying to rosrun -- and what does your ros path look like ("echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH")

diecastzinc commented 10 years ago

Hrm. My ROS_PACKAGE_PATH is /home/dcz/catkin_ws/src:/opt/ros/hydro/share:/opt/ros/hydro/stacks

The error is: [rosrun] Couldn't find executable named moveit_commander_cmdline.py below /opt/ros/hydro/share/moveit_commander

Is it just a matter of adding /opt/ros/hydro/lib to ROS_PACKAGE_PATH? If so, I'm pretty sure that's not part of the installation instructions, should it be?

mikeferguson commented 10 years ago

Ok, so lib won't be in the path -- but the fact that share is in the path tells me that your paths are probably set up properly. What is the output of "catkin_find moveit_commander" (which is what happens under the hood, on my system it finds both lib and share folders)? For that matter, what version is catkin?

diecastzinc commented 10 years ago

Agh! Problem solved with catkin_find:

/home/dcz/catkin_ws/devel/share/moveit_commander /opt/ros/hydro/lib/moveit_commander /opt/ros/hydro/share/moveit_commander

I d/led from source a while back, guess it was looking for moveit_commander_cmdline.py in ~/catkin_ws/src/moveit_commander but when I deleted the folder from src, it kept leftovers in devel. It'd be nice if catkin cleaned up after itself... :)

Thanks so much for your help.