[ROS2 Foxy] rosdep install E: Unable to locate package ros-foxy-moveit-

[newcanopies]

Description

Installing moveit2 by instructions for Foxy

$ rosdep install -r --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro foxy -y

apt: Failed to detect successful installation of ros-foxy-moveit- .............

See logs below.

environment

• ROS2 Foxy
• Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL2)
• Binary

Actual behaviour

$ rosdep install -r --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro foxy -y

ERROR: the following rosdeps failed to install
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-common] failed
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-core] failed
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning] failed
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning-interface] failed
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-ros-perception] failed
  apt: command [sudo -H apt-get install -y ros-foxy-moveit-fake-controller-manager] failed
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-common]
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-core]
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning]
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning-interface]
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-ros-perception]
  apt: Failed to detect successful installation of [ros-foxy-moveit-fake-controller-manager]

[tylerjw]

$ apt-get update

you need to always run this with sudo (unless you are the root user when you run it).

sudo apt-get update

[tylerjw]

Also, what directory are you running the rosdep install command from? The --ignore-src should mean that it won't try to install packages that it finds a source version of in the --from-paths . paths. Assuming you cloned the moveit2 repos, those are all packages it should find source versions of.

[newcanopies]

what directory are you running the rosdep install command from?

from colcon workspace cd ~/ws_moveit2/src

Removed and tried fresh install - same error at building colcon workspace with rosdep install

Download MoveIt2 Source:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros-planning/moveit2/main/moveit2.repos
vcs import < moveit2.repos
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros-planning/moveit2_tutorials/main/moveit2_tutorials.repos
vcs import < moveit2_tutorials.repos

does this look like complete source?

user@machine ~/ws_moveit2/src$ ll
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 12 user user 4096 Apr 25 23:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 4096 Apr 25 23:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x  8 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 geometric_shapes/
-rw-r--r--  1 user user   862 Apr 25 23:23 moveit2.repos
drwxr-xr-x  8 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:27 moveit2_tutorials/
-rw-r--r--  1 user user 255 Apr 25 23:27 moveit2_tutorials.repos
drwxr-xr-x  8 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 moveit_msgs/
drwxr-xr-x 10 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:25 moveit_resources/
drwxr-xr-x 13 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 ros2_control/
drwxr-xr-x 14 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 ros2_controllers/
drwxr-xr-x 10 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:25 rviz_visual_tools/
drwxr-xr-x  8 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 srdfdom/
drwxr-xr-x  6 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 warehouse_ros/
drwxr-xr-x  9 user user  4096 Apr 25 23:23 warehouse_ros_mongo/

@tylerjw (thank you!)

[newcanopies]

could it be that some of the branches in moveit2.repos and their sub/modules, are out of sync with Foxy?

repositories:
moveit_msgs:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit_msgs
version: ros2
moveit_resources:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit_resources
version: ros2
geometric_shapes:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/geometric_shapes
version: ros2
srdfdom:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/srdfdom
version: ros2
ros2_control:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-controls/ros2_control
version: master
ros2_controllers:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-controls/ros2_controllers
version: master
warehouse_ros:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/warehouse_ros
version: ros2
warehouse_ros_mongo:
type: git
url: https://github.com/ros-planning/warehouse_ros_mongo
version: ros2

[newcanopies]

which repos are these missing ros deps sourced from:

ros-foxy-moveit-common
ros-foxy-moveit-core
ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning
ros-foxy-moveit-ros-planning-interface
ros-foxy-moveit-ros-perception
ros-foxy-moveit-fake-controller-manager

[tylerjw]

Two things. I see now that those instructions are missing something. You need to download the moveit2 repo itself into the source directory.

git clone https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit2.git

That's where those packages come from. If you want to make a PR against the website to add that to the step with the vcs commands please tag me and we can fix that.

Secondly, does apt work on WSL? Why are you doing this as root? (I see the directories are owned by root). While ROS2 works on windows, moveit2 is still not building on windows as far as I know. There is an open PR from some people at Microsoft that is helping us with that. I'm not sure those instructions will work at all in WSL.

[tylerjw]

I honestly don't know enough about WSL to know if these instructions will work. For example, does it use microsoft compilers (like visual studio) or are they ones that come from gnu or clang? How does the user account work in wsl? How does the package manager apt work?

I don't develop for windows and while it is "Tier 1" according to OSRF for foxy, it is more that microsoft is putting engineering effort towards that goal (including helping us get moviet2 working on windows). For your own sanity, unless you are very familiar with Windows (and Linux) development and are willing to go into uncharted places to fix these things I'd suggest you just use an actual Ubuntu 20.04 install for working with ROS.

[tylerjw]

could it be that some of the branches in moveit2.repos and their sub/modules, are out of sync with Foxy?

The issue is that we removed the actual moveit2 repo itself from that file and you'll need to use git to manually clone it into your source directory. I'm sorry about that. We made this change because this file is meant to represent the source dependencies of the repo and should not contain the repo itself.

[newcanopies]

does apt work on WSL

it does

That's where those packages come from. If you want to make a PR against the website to add that to the step with the vcs commands please tag me and we can fix that.

thanks @tylerjw , you mean a PR branch adding the missing step:

---

Clone moveit2 source repository:

cd ~/moveit2_ws/src && git clone https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit2.git

---

moveit2 is still not building on windows as far as I know

does this match the known fail on windows?

Summary: 24 packages finished [6min 34s]
  1 package failed: moveit_core
  5 packages aborted: effort_controllers joint_state_controller joint_trajectory_controller position_controllers velocity_controllers
  8 packages had stderr output: controller_interface controller_manager diff_drive_controller forward_command_controller geometric_shapes joint_state_broadcaster joint_trajectory_controller moveit_core
  24 packages not processed

[newcanopies]

There is an open PR from some people at Microsoft that is helping us with that. I'm not sure those instructions will work at all in WSL.

how can I find the PR?

[tylerjw]

No suprise there. here is the PR for windows support: #286 It is out of date and last time I talked with the author he is working to update it.

Unless you have a ton of experience developing for windows I would generally avoid trying to use windows for ros development. Ubuntu is what everyone who works on this repo (and much of the ros ecosystem) uses so it will be much easier for you to use if you are just getting started. That being said, it is possible to get it working and microsoft would be happy to know that there are people trying to do it. You will just have a much harder time getting help with anything ros if you are using windows.

[tylerjw]

To get that PR to work you'll probably need the old versions of the other repos (from around the time he last updated it).