Installation of ROS-velodyne-Package

Question

Hey,

I'm new to ROS, so don't be mad :-)

I want to install the velodyne_driver(actually the whole velodyne related stuff), and my best guess was, that this command would do that:

rosinstall $ROS_WORKSPACE http://utexas-art-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stacks/velodyne/velodyne_driver

This is the error I get:

ERROR in config: Invalid multiproject yaml format in [http://utexas-art-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stacks/velodyne/velodyne_driver]: while scanning a simple key in "", line 2, column 1 could not found expected ':' in "", line 3, column 40

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 ROS: Fuerte

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Originally posted by Flowers on ROS Answers with karma: 342 on 2012-05-30

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Answer 1

For Ubuntu 12.04 Fuerte, there is a binary package already available:

sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-velodyne

For building the latest trunk from source, I recommend rosws:

roslocate info velodyne | rosws merge -

As always, use the trunk at your own risk. It is pretty stable right now. In fact, there is one bug fix there that is not yet released (but coming soon).

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Originally posted by joq with karma: 25443 on 2012-05-31

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Answer 2

The rosinstall seems to be here: http://utexas-art-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rosinstall/utexas-art.rosinstall

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Originally posted by dornhege with karma: 31395 on 2012-05-31

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Original comments

Comment by joq on 2012-05-31:
That works, but checks out several other large stacks that many people will not need. I will create a velodyne-only rosinstall file in that same directory for this purpose.

Comment by joq on 2012-05-31:
There is now a http://utexas-art-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rosinstall/velodyne.rosinstall