rosdep wants to install from taps/indigo after this script

[kjeremy]

I'm trying to install the turtlebot_simulator using rosdep install but it wants to satisfy requirements by tapping ros/indigo. Is that correct? It seems like it should prefer a source install though I'm a ROS newbie and might not understand the situation.

[mikepurvis]

Interesting, yeah, I don't think rosdep will do what you want in this scenario, since we don't have homebrew formula for released ROS packages. You'll probably have the most luck with an invocation such as the following to generate your source workspace:

rosinstall_generator turtlebot_simulator --deps --exclude RPP > turtlebot_simulator.rosinstall
wstool init -j8 src turtlebot_simulator.rosinstall
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y --as-root pip:no
catkin build

Alternatively, if there are certain packages outside of desktop_full that you consistently need, you can add them to the ROS_EXTRA_PACKAGES env var, and they'll get built and installed into /opt/ros/indigo for you.

Glad to hear that the base install went well for you, though!

Edit: Having tried it myself, it looks like you may be in for a rough ride— turtlebot_simulator depends on a gigantic mass of stuff (122 packages outside of desktop_full!), including hardware stuff (like libfreenect, kobuki_ftdi) and system-y type stuff (like zeroconf_avahi_suite), all of which are going to give you problems on OS X.

[mikepurvis]

Closing the ticket now. If you have an issue with the above suggestions, please create a new ticket or start a discussion on ROS Answers.