Installation of explore package in Groovy (ubuntu 12.10)

Question

Hello, I have been trying to install the ROS explore package: http://www.ros.org/wiki/explore Unfortunately, there are no binaries available in the form of

apt-get install ros-groovy-*

Therefore, I downloaded it from the svn repository and tried to compile it with rosmake, but I have received the following error:

/opt/ros/rosws/exploration/explore/include/explore/explore_frontier.h:45:34: fatal error: LinearMath/btVector3.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

I googled the error, and tried to install several packpages like libbullet-dev liblinear-dev but the problem is still there, thus any help is appreciated. Thank you!

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Originally posted by Victor_ocv2 on ROS Answers with karma: 483 on 2013-03-04

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Comment by lewis longman on 2013-12-06:
hello, have you solved the problem? I meet the same problem with you, if you get it through, please help me, thank you.

Answer 1

When I looked into the explore package a few months ago, it wasn't compatible with Groovy, and looked like it was unmaintained. In particular, I think the navigation or costmap API has changed, and explore hasn't been updated to match.

I remember it working in Electric, and I don't think I tried it on Fuerte.

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Originally posted by ahendrix with karma: 47576 on 2013-03-04

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Original comments

Comment by Victor_ocv2 on 2013-03-05:
Thank you, that leads me to another question

Comment by nikkihohn on 2013-03-23:
Do you know if the explore package has been updated to be compatible with Groovy now?