This documentation is for the standalone release of roslocate, which is distributed with rosinstall. For older version of roslocate, please see C Turtle documentation.

Installation

roslocate is installed with the rosinstall tool. To install:

easy_install -U rosinstall

Usage

roslocate
        info    Get rosinstall info of resource
        vcs     Get name of source control system
        type    Package or stack
        uri     Get source control URI of resource
        www     Get web page of resource
        repo    Get repository name of resource
        describe        Get description of resource

In order to assist with migrating users from the old version of roslocate, the roslocate svn command is still supported. It will be removed in future versions.

info

roslocate info <package-or-stack>

• Return rosinstall fragment for install the package or stack.

  Example:

  roslocate info mapping
   - git:
          local-name: mapping
          uri: http://code.in.tum.de/git/mapping.git

--prefix

• Specify a file-system prefix for the rosinstall fragment.

  Example:

  roslocate info --prefix /home/bob/ros-pkg rospy
   - svn:
          local-name: /home/bob/ros-pkg/rospy
          uri: https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros_comm/trunk/clients/rospy

--distro=DISTRO (Since 0.5.17)

• Get installation information for stack released into a specific ROS distribution. (Released stacks only)

--dev (Since 0.5.17)

• Fetch the development branch instead of versioned release (e.g. "trunk"). (Released stacks only)

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