Tutorial 1.2.1 Using rosmake

Question

I just started the Tutorials and the 'rosmake beginner_tutorials' command gives me this output:

[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['beginner_tutorials']
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/home/ryan/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20120314-092824 [ rosmake ] Expanded args ['beginner_tutorials'] to: []
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages: ['beginner_tutorials'] [ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.

According to the tutorial I should have something like this:

[ rosmake ] No package specified. Building ['beginner_tutorials'] [ rosmake ] Logging to directory [ rosmake ] /home/dbking/.ros/rosmake_output-2009-09-22-03-17-14 [ rosmake ] [ 0 of 18 Completed ] [rosmake-0] >>> genmsg_cpp >>> [ make ] [rosmake-0] <<< genmsg_cpp <<< [PASS] [ 0.39 seconds ] [ rosmake ] [ 1 of 18 Completed ] [rosmake-0] >>> roslib >>> [ make ] ... ... ... [ rosmake ] [ 17 of 18 Completed ] [rosmake-0] >>> beginner_tutorials >>> [ make ] [rosmake-0] <<< beginner_tutorials <<< [PASS] [ 0.79 seconds ]

I thought I had followed everything up to this point successfully, but I can't seem to find the problem. Any thoughts?

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Originally posted by RyanG on ROS Answers with karma: 26 on 2012-03-14

Post score: 0

Answer 1

You don't seem to have beginner_tutorials in your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH.

You should probably add this line to your ~/.bashrc (after the line which sources the ros setup.bash):

export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/path/to/beginner_tutorials:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}

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Originally posted by Ugo with karma: 1620 on 2012-03-14

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 3