Catkin_make not installing Python dependencies

asked 2016-03-16 12:06:20 -0600

Cerin
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How do you make catkin_make install all Python package dependencies via pip?

I've written a simple Python package with a setup.py file like:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from distutils.core import setup
from catkin_pkg.python_setup import generate_distutils_setup
d = generate_distutils_setup(
    version='0.0.1',
    packages=['mypackage'],
    package_dir={'': 'src'},
    install_requires=['somepackage'],
)
setup(**d)

And my CMakeLists.txt includes catkin_python_setup().

However, when I run catkin_make and source devel/setup.sh, somepackage isn't installed into the virtual environment.

answered 2017-01-26 06:39:32 -0600

peci1

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updated 2017-01-26 07:16:39 -0600

I wouldn't expect catkin_make to do that.

Instead, I'd expect rosdep to do that, however, it doesn't generally. Most python packages are defined in the rosdep distribution files in the form python-packagename. So you can add a run dependency on python-somepackage into package.xml and let rosdep install the package.

However, not all pip-installable packages are in rosdep's distribution lists. E.g. numpy and scikit-learn are there (as python-numpy and python-sklearn ), but tensorflow is not. When the package is not present, you are, to my best knowledge, out of luck, and have to install it manually (or you can open a Pull request to rosdistro to add the pip package: http://docs.ros.org/independent/api/r... )

You can verify by issuing

rosdep resolve python-somepackage

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@peci1 you are right. However, if you need a pip package which is somehow usable for the broader public, simply provide the respective rosdep rule: http://docs.ros.org/independent/api/r...

mgruhler ( 2017-01-26 06:58:19 -0600 )edit

Thanks, I've edited the answer.

peci1 ( 2017-01-26 07:16:58 -0600 )edit

This led me to ask on the catkin issue tracker, what's actually the requires field doing. The answer is simple: nothing. Do not use it in ROS. I've added a few comments to the documentation, so that people are warned about that. Details here: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure...

peci1 ( 2017-01-26 18:04:20 -0600 )edit

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