I am on ubuntu 16.04 [..]
and:
however with this command:
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --os=ubuntu:trusty
I get this error
E: Unable to locate package ros-indigo-roscpp
ERROR: the following rosdeps failed to install
apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-indigo-roscpp] failed
Indigo is not supported / released on Ubuntu Xenial (16.04), which means that ros-indigo-roscpp doesn't exist there. Forcing rosdep to use the ubuntu:trusty defintions isn't going to change that.
You could try and see whether
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src
after having sourced the correct (Kinetic) setup.bash works.
PS: this is exactly why I never really use --rosdistro $DISTRO in command line examples: the instructions will get copy/pasted by someone in the future on a different OS/ROS release and no longer work. --rosdistro $DISTRO is only needed if you don't have a setup.bash sourced anyway.
Edit:
I'm not sure what you mean by sourcing the correct setup.bash..
That would be source /opt/ros/$DISTRO/setup.bash. That will set the relevant environment variables, making --rosdistro .. unnecessary.
I decided to try to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.ros.org/tum_simulator#Installation
but to no avail, probably because I also have a different os version
Yes, those instructions are even older than the ones you found on dougvk/tum_simulator. Especially rosmake and friends are deprecated.
Is there a newer version of tum_simulator?
Not that I know of, but I'm really not into UAVs / quadrotors. You should probably spend some time searching for some, and / or try to contact a community. See Any quadrotor simulation package in ROS Kinetic? for a similar question.
But to get back to your original problem: can you show us the commands you've used and what their output was?
Originally posted by gvdhoorn with karma: 86574 on 2016-10-24
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Comment by frenchie007 on 2016-10-24:
I'm not sure what you mean by sourcing the correct setup.bash..
I decided to try to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.ros.org/tum_simulator#Installation
but to no avail, probably because I also have a different os version
Is there a newer version of tum_simulator?
Comment by alienmon on 2016-10-25:
@frenchie007 AFAIK, the newest version is only Indigo.The indigo version itself is still not official ( not merged to the main repo).
I use the indigo version from dougvk github. It works fine! Just that the demo is not as complete as the official one, But that's not a problem for me
Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-10-25:
@alienmon: does it also work on ROS Kinetic? Because that is what the OP seems to be having problems with.
Comment by alienmon on 2016-10-25:
That one I'm not so sure, cause I only tried with indigo. I don't think it will work, Buy maybe you can just try out @frenchie007
Comment by frenchie007 on 2016-10-25:
okay actually the simulator opens up but I can't control the drone.. I think it might be similar to here
http://answers.ros.org/question/221691/not-working-command-line-control-in-tum_simulator/
I think I will just use a vm to have ubuntu precise and use the old instructions. thanks for you help
Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-10-25:\
I think I will just use a vm to have ubuntu precise and use the old instructions.
I would, if you can, use at least the Indigo version, which according to @alienmon, should work under Trusty.
Comment by alienmon on 2016-10-25:
I use Ubuntu 14.04 , and ROS indigo
