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Misael Alarcon
Misael Alarcon

Reputation: 161

ROS Kinetic: No script named 'rosdep' although it is installed

I have a problem using ROS Kinetic in Ubuntu 16.04.
It was working normally but suddenly rosdep dissapeared while I was trying to configure the Turtlebot Simulator and the AR Drone Autonomy Package. When I type sudo rosdep init it shows the next error

Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "/usr/local/bin/rosdep", line 4, in <module>
__import__('pkg_resources').run_script('rosdep==0.11.5', 'rosdep')
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 739,in run_script
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1486, in run_script
pkg_resources.ResolutionError: No script named 'rosdep'

I tried to install rosdep manually with sudo apt-get install python-rosdep but it shows that python-rosdep is already the newest version (0.11.5-1)

I tried uninstalling ROS using sudo apt-get purge ros-* and sudo apt-get autoremove and installing it again.
And also reinstalling it using sudo apt-get install --reinstall ros-kinetic-desktop-full but no working.

I am following the instructions of the official site . Any idea of what can I do to solve this? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1014

Answers (1)

at-2500
at-2500

Reputation: 593

rosdep is actually completely independent from all the ros-** packages because it is used to install them, which is why reinstalling those packages didn't help.

My best guess would be that you used pip in addition to apt for something with rosdep, and now have 1.5 or 3 different versions of rosdep. Please try removing rosdep installed using apt completely: apt-get purge python-rosdep and make sure that there are no errors when removing the package. If there are any, post them as comment here. Then, check all python import paths for a folder named rosdep, and remove them. You can find out your python import paths by running the following python script:

import sys
print sys.path

Then, you type which rosdep. If there is a rosdep binary anywhere, remove it. Then you can reinstall rosdep: sudo apt install python-rosdep.

Upvotes: 1

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