Problem in ROS Workspace Overlay

[msrizal]

Hello everbody,

I'm Rizal from Malaysia and quite new with ROS.  I need to install ROS Fuerte in my laptop, eventhough I know it has a ROS Indigo as a new one but I to use Fuerte for something reason.

My question is, I have done install ROS Fuerte but I have a problem to continue with ROS Workspace Overlay.  When I need to create new workspace with this command:

rosws init ~/fuerte_workspace /opt/ros/fuerte

it will came out with this error:

ERROR: Cannot find required rosinstall library version, check your installation (also of vcstools) is up-to-date. One frequent cause is that rosinstall 0.5 is still installed in /usr/local/lib.
No module named vcstools.vcs_abstraction

I try to find the previous Q and A, but I really dont get the answer.  Please can some one help me.

Thank you very much

Best regards.

[Patrick Goebel]

Hi Rizai,

This is really a question for the main ROS Q&A forum: http://answers.ros.org.  Be sure to indicate in your question what version of Ubuntu you are running,  Perhaps I misunderstood your question, but if you are trying to install ROS Fuerte and ROS Indigo on the same machine,  Fuerte and Indigo are not supported on any common version of Ubuntu.  (The latest version of Ubuntu supported for ROS Fuerte is 12.04 while the oldest version of Ubuntu supported for ROS Indigo is 13.10.)

--patrick

[msrizal]

Hi Pi Robot,

Thanks for responding my questions.  Yes, exactly I use Ubuntu 12.04 for the oldest version ROS Fuerte.