depthai-ros python-rosdep2 is dangerous

This program is listed in your install instructions for Melodic ROS. It removed most of my ROS installation! I found that python-rosdep worked fine. The ROS wiki says that python-rosdep2 is unstable.

Compiling on a Jetson TX1 I found that I had to command "make -j1 -l4" otherwise it would freeze up at 67% completed.

Feb 26 '22 16:02 Russ76

Sorry for the issues with caused by erroneous installation instructions. I'll hand this over to @saching13 to check and properly guard against this happening in the future.

Mar 01 '22 01:03 themarpe

Sorry for the issue. I will add Optional instructions to use the same where needed.

Mar 01 '22 03:03 saching13

I did not manage to get it working with ROS melodic and python-rosdep. It worked with python-rosdep2, but it did remove most of my ROS installation as you say.

Mar 15 '22 12:03 mikkeljakobsen

I did not manage to get it working with ROS melodic and python-rosdep. It worked with python-rosdep2, but it did remove most of my ROS installation as you say.

is this specific to jetson platform? I didn't see issues on the usual Ubuntu 18.04.

Mar 15 '22 16:03 saching13

I did not manage to get it working with ROS melodic and python-rosdep. It worked with python-rosdep2, but it did remove most of my ROS installation as you say.

is this specific to jetson platform? I didn't see issues on the usual Ubuntu 18.04.

No, it's in a docker container on an amd64 machine.

Mar 16 '22 08:03 mikkeljakobsen

I solved the issue by running ldconfig. Apparently this was not needed when using python-rosdep2.

Mar 17 '22 13:03 mikkeljakobsen

Closing due to inactivity, if you think this should remain open, please tag me in a comment here.

Nov 09 '22 10:11 Serafadam