raspberry rosdep initialised, but still asking to initialise

Question

Hi

Trying to install ros desktop on raspberry pi.

I am at the resolving dependencies point and the command sudo rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro groovy -y fails with ERROR: your rosdep installation has not been initialized yet. Please run: rosdep update

rosupdate runs fine, but the error still happens. Tried running rosdep init again, but get ERROR: default sources list file already exists:Please delete if you want to re-initialize

tried deleting and re-initializing, but still getting the same error

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Originally posted by nickw on ROS Answers with karma: 1504 on 2013-02-07

Post score: 2

Answer 1

Hi,

I got this to work by running sudo rosdep update. Give it a try.

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Originally posted by tonybaltovski with karma: 2549 on 2013-02-14

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Dirk Thomas on 2013-02-15:
You should not run rosdep update as root since it creates the database in your user home with root ownership.

Comment by tonybaltovski on 2013-02-19:
Without root access , I was not able to update the database. Is there any reason it cannot be done without root access?