[Xquartz-dev] xquartz problem with ros

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Fri Mar 25 20:36:01 PDT 2011


On Mar 25, 2011, at 6:05 PM, John Muccigrosso wrote:

> On 25 Mar 2011, at 20:46 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> The install instructions on the site are wrong vor various reasons:
>> 1) They want to use MP's python, but they have you execute easy_install from /usr/bin... they should have you execute easy_install-2.6
>> 2) The install-path for rosinstall is not in $PATH ... though this is probably a MP bug
>> 3) The install fails:
>> 
>> Give me trivial install instructions (that I can copy-paste while in a temp directory, or a tarball, ...), and I'll try it again.
> 
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> I used the instructions here for installation of their latest version, Diamondback (turtle theme) on OS X:
> 
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/OSX

Yeah, those are the instructions that are incorrect and still produce an error once I "do what they mean, not what they say".

> Well, I should say that I used the older version of these instructions. It's been updated a bit. I did the full-install option.

Can you get me a copy of the old instructions?



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