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Hi,

May I ask a fresh question, that when i try to run find_object package,it does not be downloaded. And reference is "http://www.ros.org/wiki/find_object/Tutorials/Running%20the%20basic%20find%20object%20demo" I ask some of my colleagues that it only should download one by one files at "https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/stacks/find_object/",. which is so confused to me, cause it has too many files and sub-files.

So could there be anther way to download this SVN source quickly?

Best regards.

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Originally posted by Yongqiang Gao on ROS Answers with karma: 133 on 2011-02-24

Post score: 5

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Comment by Yongqiang Gao on 2011-02-24:
OK, we can solve problem when we face it. Thank u. and best regards.

Comment by joq on 2011-02-24:
This question applies to many use cases, in addition to that specific tutorial.

Answer 1

That tutorial skips over several important preliminary steps. This is the best answer I know. Maybe someone else has a better approach.

Install the ROS binary packages if you have not already (see: Ubuntu C-turtle installation).

Create your own rosinstall file (find_object.rosinstall for this example), containing these three lines:

- other: {local-name: /opt/ros/cturtle/ros}
- other: {local-name: /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks}
- svn: {local-name: find_object, uri: 'https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/stacks/find_object'}

Run rosinstall on that file, and source the setup.bash script (which you should probably add to your ~/.bashrc script).

You can do all of the above with these shell commands:

$ cp /opt/ros/cturtle/.rosinstall find_object.rosinstall
$ roslocate info find_object >> find_object.rosinstall
$ rosinstall ~/ros find_object.rosinstall
$ source ~/ros/setup.bash

Follow the tutorial after that.

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Originally posted by joq with karma: 25443 on 2011-02-24

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 10

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Comment by Sentinal_Bias on 2013-05-12:
how do you create the rosinstall file? do you just create with a text editor and place it in the /opt/ros/cturtle/ directory?

Comment by joq on 2013-05-13:
C-turtle was a long time ago. You probably want to run a more recent ROS distro. Each distro comes with a .rosinstall in its top-level directory.