errno 13 roscreate

Question

having trouble with the roscreate command. its giving me a permissions errror

roscreate-pkg enclosure_escape rospy std_msgs irobot_create_2_1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/ros/diamondback/ros/bin/roscreate-pkg", line 35, in roscreate.roscreatepkg.roscreatepkg_main() File "/opt/ros/diamondback/ros/tools/roscreate/src/roscreate/roscreatepkg.py", line 126, in roscreatepkg_main create_package(package, author_name(), depends, uses_roscpp=uses_roscpp, uses_rospy=uses_rospy) File "/opt/ros/diamondback/ros/tools/roscreate/src/roscreate/roscreatepkg.py", line 63, in create_package os.makedirs(p) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/ros/diamondback/ros/enclosure_escape

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Originally posted by younghistory on ROS Answers with karma: 3 on 2011-05-31

Post score: 0

Answer 1

You need root permissions to create files in /opt/ros/diamondback/ros

Instead, you should create them somewhere in your user directory, for example, ~/ros

You will need to set your $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH variable to let ROS know to look into that directory. To do so, edit your /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.sh file to include these lines:

export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros

export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/opt/ros/diamondback/stacks:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}

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Originally posted by Ivan Dryanovski with karma: 4954 on 2011-05-31

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by younghistory on 2011-05-31:
haha yep i just realized that...THANKS!!!!!