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Zimbaa
Zimbaa

Reputation: 45

Installation guide for ROS-Kinetic with Python 3.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

I'm having a ROS-node that uses Python 3.5 and I want to run it on ROS-Kinetic. This is supposed to run on Ubuntu 16.04 with Kernel 4.4. I've read that it's complicated to match ROS-Kinetic with Python 3 because it's not officially supported...but I've also read that it is possible to do so... There are several installation guides for specific packages and I've tried some of them but failed everytime.

What I've tried so far:

1) Installed ROS-Kinetic-desktop-full

2) pip3 install rospkg catkin_pkg

3) export PYTHONPATH = /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages

When I'm running catkin_make, the first error appearing says:

... ImportError: No module named genmsg ...

Can anyone please write an exact installation guide for making ROS-Kinetic run with Python 3.5 (without a virtual environment) or tell me what's missing in my installation?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15625

Answers (2)

Mike Chung
Mike Chung

Reputation: 150

An alternative to Some progammer's answer, you could install the packages in global space

sudo apt-get install python3-yaml  # you'll also need this
sudo pip3 install rospkg catkin_pkg

or add --user flag

pip3 install --user rospkg catkin_pkg

People used Python 3.5 + ROS-Kinetic in Ubuntu before (for example, check out cozmo_driver) and it should work according to REP3.

Upvotes: 2

TioneB
TioneB

Reputation: 468

You are not exporting the right folder to PYTHONPATH. Try

export PYTHONPATH=/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/

Upvotes: 0

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