Can't Install ardrone_autonomy

asked 2017-01-19 07:37:12 -0600

sharan100
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updated 2017-01-23 09:13:26 -0600

Currently I am running an instance of ROS Kinetic on an Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS and trying to install the package ardrone-autonomy. However, the instructions on the linked page say that I can simply invoke the command:

apt-get install ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy

Is it because the package is not available on kinetic? Do I have to build from source using these instructions below?

$ cd ~/ros_catkin_ws
$ rosinstall_generator ros_desktop <package_name> --rosdistro kinetic --deps --wet-only --tar > kinetic-custom_ros.rosinstall
$ wstool merge -t src kinetic-custom_ros.rosinstall
$ wstool update -t src
$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro kinetic -y -r --os=debian:jessie
$ sudo ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --install-space /opt/ros/kinetic

If so, where exactly is the /ros_catkin_ws folder? I used sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full install ROS, and the folder does not exist.

EDIT

Let me know what exactly I am doing wrong. When I invoke the command below, this is what I get:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy

The output of the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list is:

deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial main

and uname -a is:

Linux rasp 4.1.19-v7+ #858 SMP Tue Mar 15 15:56:00 GMT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

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answered 2017-01-19 07:40:49 -0600

gvdhoorn
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updated 2017-01-23 09:24:39 -0600

tl;dr: OP is running 16.04 MATE LTS on an ARM device, and ardrone_autonomy has not been released for that platform (at least not as of 2017-01-23).

You don't tell us what is actually going wrong. Does apt-get give you an error when you invoke it? If so: please include that in your post.

Also: looking at ros_kinetic_default.html?q=ardrone and wiki/ardrone_autonomy it looks like ardrone_autonomy is released in Kinetic, so sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy should work.

Edit: I've just tested the following on a Docker container running Mate 16.04 x64 (after having setup ROS Kinetic according to the instructions on the wiki):

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy

This results in the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  graphviz libcdt5 libcgraph6 libgvc6 libgvpr2 libpathplan4 libyaml-cpp-dev libyaml-cpp0.5v5
  ros-kinetic-camera-calibration-parsers ros-kinetic-camera-info-manager ros-kinetic-image-transport
  ros-kinetic-tf ros-kinetic-tf2 ros-kinetic-tf2-msgs ros-kinetic-tf2-py ros-kinetic-tf2-ros
Suggested packages:
  gsfonts graphviz-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  graphviz libcdt5 libcgraph6 libgvc6 libgvpr2 libpathplan4 libyaml-cpp-dev libyaml-cpp0.5v5
  ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy ros-kinetic-camera-calibration-parsers ros-kinetic-camera-info-manager
  ros-kinetic-image-transport ros-kinetic-tf ros-kinetic-tf2 ros-kinetic-tf2-msgs ros-kinetic-tf2-py
  ros-kinetic-tf2-ros
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
Need to get 3865 kB of archives.
After this operation, 25.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

It would seem that the problem is really at your end, as ardrone_autonomy is released for Kinetic and I can install it locally on a system similar to yours.

Can you try the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy

Please copy and paste these lines, one at a time, in a terminal, then press enter.

If that still doesn't work, see if cleaning the apt indices (see here for steps), updating and trying to install again works.

Edit2:

and uname -a is:

Linux rasp 4.1.19-v7+ #858 SMP Tue Mar 15 15:56:00 GMT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

This is partly my fault, as I should have asked about what system / platform you are using, but ardrone_autonomy is not released on ARM platforms (see status_page/ros_kinetic_uxhf.html?q=ardrone). If you'd checked the ros_kinetic_default.html?q=ardrone and wiki/ardrone_autonomy links I included earlier, you'd seen that those all mention x32, x64, i386 and amd64 only. No mention of arm anywhere.

That is the reason why apt-get can't find ros-kinetic-ardrone-autonomy.

If you want to use that package on ARM, you'll have to build from sources (that is the second exception to the "never build from sources, unless you have to" mantra: you'll have to if a package has not been released for your target platform.

PS: in future question, please include what CPU architecture / platform you are trying to run things on, as it would have saved us both (and future readers) a lot of time.

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Check out the edit I made above.

sharan100 ( 2017-01-19 08:57:43 -0600 )edit

And how did you install ROS? Can you install any ROS package using apt-get?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-01-19 09:05:55 -0600 )edit

Can you give me an example of a package that I can use, that's not in the ros-kinetic-desktop-full package and available for kinetic?

sharan100 ( 2017-01-19 09:07:59 -0600 )edit

that's not in the ros-kinetic-desktop-full package and available for kinetic

so you have installed the ros-kinetic-desktop-full package using apt-get?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-01-19 09:24:07 -0600 )edit

Yes, as mentioned in the question, I did use sudo apt-get ros-kinetic-desktop-full to install my ROS

sharan100 ( 2017-01-19 11:38:55 -0600 )edit

Mate 16.04 is essentially a regular Ubuntu release, so all Kinetic packages that are available for Ubuntu Xenial should be available for Mate. According to all the information we have, ardrone_autonomy is availale no kinetic, so it should work. Can you try a sudo apt-get update?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-01-19 14:38:16 -0600 )edit

And no: you should not build Kinetic from source. It wouldn't make sense to build an entire ROS distribution from sources (and with the Debian Jessie instructions) for just a single pkg. If at all, you could build ardrone_autonomy from sources, but I'd try to resolve the apt thing first.

gvdhoorn ( 2017-01-19 14:39:31 -0600 )edit

so I just installed ros-kinetic-joy with the command sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-joy

sharan100 ( 2017-01-19 14:44:43 -0600 )edit

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