Installing issue on ubuntu 22.04 with Ros humble

[miguimag]

Hello,

I just installed ubuntu 22.04 and Ros 2 humble following these instructions: https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html . I can run the talker and listener test so I assume my installation is succesful.

I am trying to install open-rmf following these instructions: https://github.com/open-rmf/rmf

However when I get to this step it fails.

sudo apt install ros-humble-rmf-demos-gz-classic

The error I get is:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-humble-rmf-demos-gz-classic

I have run the command
apt-cache search ros-humble-rmf

And I cannot see any demos-gz-classic nor demos-gz.

How should I proceed?. Please be as specific as possible since I am not an expert on linux.

[Yadunund]

Thanks for highlighting this issue.
The binary packages for rmf-demos-gz-classic and rmf-demos-gz are not available yet.

If you would like to run the demos by using the rest of the Open-RMF binaries, you can do the following

1. Create a workspace with only rmf_demos source pkgs

mkdir ~/ws_rmf_demos/src -p
cd ~/ws_rmf_demos/src
git clone https://github.com/open-rmf/rmf_demos.git

2. Install system dependencies for demos

sudo apt update && sudo apt install \
  git cmake python3-vcstool curl \
  -y
python3 -m pip install flask-socketio fastapi uvicorn datamodel_code_generator
sudo apt-get install python3-colcon*

3. Install rest of Open-RMF binaries via rosdep

cd ~/ws_rmf_demos
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro humble -y

4. Build workspace

cd ~/ws_rmf_demos
source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash
colcon build

5. Run a demo

cd ~/ws_rmf_demos
source install/setup.bash
ros2 launch rmf_demos_gz_classic office.launch.xml

Alternatively, you can build the entire Open-RMF and the demos from source following the instructions here

We will update the README shortly. Let us know if you face any issues.

[Yadunund]

More information on the reason for not having binary releases of these pkgs is documented here. We'll make sure to update the README accordingly.
open-rmf/rmf_demos#166

[orensbruli]

I think this PR is related #255 and this #270

[Steven-NYP]

Hi I am following the instructions above and received the following errors

~/ws_rmf_demos$ colcon build
Starting >>> rmf_demos_dashboard_resources
Starting >>> rmf_demos_assets
Starting >>> rmf_demos_fleet_adapter
Starting >>> rmf_demos_maps
Starting >>> rmf_demos_tasks
Starting >>> rmf_demos_bridges
Finished <<< rmf_demos_dashboard_resources [2.04s]                                                                                                  
Starting >>> rmf_demos_panel
Finished <<< rmf_demos_assets [2.08s]
--- stderr: rmf_demos_tasks                                                                                                       
/home/steven/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
---
Finished <<< rmf_demos_tasks [3.31s]
--- stderr: rmf_demos_fleet_adapter                                                                                                 
/home/steven/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
---
Finished <<< rmf_demos_fleet_adapter [3.45s]
--- stderr: rmf_demos_bridges                                                                                           
/home/steven/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
---
Finished <<< rmf_demos_bridges [3.76s]
--- stderr: rmf_demos_panel
/home/steven/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py:66: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated.
!!

        ********************************************************************************
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` directly.
        Instead, use pypa/build, pypa/installer or other
        standards-based tools.

        See https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html for details.
        ********************************************************************************

!!
  self.initialize_options()
---
Finished <<< rmf_demos_panel [1.81s]
Finished <<< rmf_demos_maps [6.02s]                      
Starting >>> rmf_demos
Finished <<< rmf_demos [0.29s]                   
Starting >>> rmf_demos_gz
Starting >>> rmf_demos_gz_classic
Finished <<< rmf_demos_gz [0.26s]                                                                     
Finished <<< rmf_demos_gz_classic [0.26s]

Summary: 10 packages finished [7.21s]
  4 packages had stderr output: rmf_demos_bridges rmf_demos_fleet_adapter rmf_demos_panel rmf_demos_tasks

May I know did I missed out anything?

[aaronchongth]

Hello @Steven-NYP! These are just build warnings regarding setup.py's imminent deprecation from setuptools, as you can see the packages are built fine and the instructions are still valid.

We will look into migrating out of setup.py in the meantime, thanks for bringing this up!