cannot find octovis for viewing the built map

Question

I am using ros-fuerte. I used rgbdslam package to built a map. I saved the map as 'name.bt'. When I am trying to view it using rosrun octovis octovis <filename.bt>

I got the error octovis stack/package not found.

But I checked the installed location using '$ dpkg -L ros-fuerte-octovis'

I got output as:

/. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/ros-fuerte-octovis /usr/share/doc/ros-fuerte-octovis/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/ros-fuerte-octovis/copyright /opt /opt/ros /opt/ros/fuerte /opt/ros/fuerte/bin /opt/ros/fuerte/bin/octovis /opt/ros/fuerte/include /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/TrajectoryDrawer.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/ColorOcTreeDrawer.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/SelectionBox.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/OcTreeDrawer.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/OcTreeRecord.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/PointcloudDrawer.h /opt/ros/fuerte/include/octovis/SceneObject.h /opt/ros/fuerte/lib /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/liboctovis.a /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/cmake /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/cmake/octovis /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/cmake/octovis/octovis-config.cmake /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/cmake/octovis/octovis-config-version.cmake /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/liboctovis.so

Is there any possible solutions?

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Originally posted by Sudhan on ROS Answers with karma: 171 on 2012-07-20

Post score: 0

Answer 1

You no longer start octovis as a ROS package in fuerte (i.e. with "rosrun"). It is now installed as a regular system-wide library, so you start it just like any other program:

octovis <filename.bt>

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Originally posted by AHornung with karma: 5904 on 2012-07-20

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by Sudhan on 2012-07-20:
Initially, I tried that too and also now. But, I got the same error, ERROR: Filestream to 1stmap.bt not open, nothing read.

Comment by Sudhan on 2012-07-20:
Sorry. In the mapping process instead of using openni_node.launch, I used openni.launch from other package. So, I guess the map was not built. But, I cannot find the file openni_node.launch in openni_camera package.

Comment by AHornung on 2012-07-20:
That is a completely different problem, I guess. What happens if you open octovis (without filename), then go the File / Open and pick your file?

Comment by Sudhan on 2012-07-20:
I solved the problem. I cannot find openni_node.launch because its located in the package openni_camera_deprecated. But, in older versions its located in openni_camera. So, try for $ roslaunch openni_camera_deprecated openni_node.launch