Player 2.1.2 Stage 2.1.1 installation guide

We installed Player/Stage today.

The version of Ubuntu in which we did this is 9.04. Following are the steps we took
for the installation:

1. Check for all of the available updates and install them.

2. Install all the packages included in this wiki:
http://www.control.aau.dk/~tb/wiki/index.php/Installing_Player_and_Stage_in_Ubuntu

3. With the installation cd inside go to the synaptic package manager and then to settings/repositories. Activate the option that says “Cdrom with Ubuntu 9.04”. Then go to the Third Party Software tab and activate all of the options available.
Finally, go to the Updates tab and activate the “Proposed updates” option. Reload the synaptic.

4. Download from http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/ the 2.1.2 version of Player and the 2.1.1 version of Stage.

5. Unpack Player-2.1.2.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf player-2.1.2.tar.gz

6. When configuring player including all of the default drivers, we got several errors related to the vec2map driver. That is why we disabled it as follows. Inside the directory in which you unpacked this file type:

$ ./configure –disable-vec2map

7. After this type

$ make
$ sudo make install

At this point Player should have successfully been installed. The following step is to install Stage.

8. Unpack Stage-2.1.1-tar.gz

$ tar xzvf stage-2.1.1-tar.gz

9. Then type:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

10. The rgb.txt file was omitted in this version of Ubuntu. Therefore, you must create this file in the corresponding directory. Go to the following directory:

$ cd usr/X11R6

And then create a new directory as follows:

$ sudo mkdir lib/X11

Inside this directory create a file named rgb.txt with the content included in this link

http://osdir.com/ml/science.robotics.playerstage.cvs/2008-01/msg00023.html

11. After completing this step you must make a dynamic link in order for the libraries to be loaded successfully. You can do this also by modifying the .bashrc file. We however found this option a lot easier and faster.

$ sudo ldconfig

12. Finally test the correct installation of both player and stage:

$ player usr/local/share/stage/worlds/simple.cfg

Have a nice day!

Junta 25 de Noviembre de 2009

Vimos la instalación del Stage en la máquina de Arturo, quedó funcionando.

Se generaron nuevos tickets y se borraron algunos.

Se quedó que el trabajo empezará nuevamente la semana del 7 de Diciembre (antes si ya terminan sus exámenes).

La semana del 7 de Dic. nos reuniremos el jueves o viernes.

RGB.txt

http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/latex/rgb.txt

http://osdir.com/ml/science.robotics.playerstage.cvs/2008-01/msg00023.html

Junta 25 de Noviembre de 2009

Renato confirma junta para mañana 25 de Nov a las 10.00 am. Nos vemos en mi oficina.

Junta 18 de Noviembre 2009

Junta con Renato.

Básicamente nos informa que se va del DFKI-Bremen y ahora trabajara en Surrey Space Centre en Inglaterra (Guildford).

Platicamos sobre las posibilidades de ir a Alemania o esperar a que él esté bien establecido en Surrey para ver si se puede ir con él.

Renato vio con cada uno sus intereses: Carlos señales biomedicas, Oscar robótica espacial, Arturo vision.

Se asignarán tickets que nos ayuden en la investigación y que a cada uno ayude a tener experiencia en su área de interes.

Nos volvemos a reunir el miércoles 25 a las 10.00 am.

Junta 18 de Noviembre 2009

Hola a todos:

Les pido que por favor nos veamos este miércoles a las 9.00 am en mi oficina para una junta con Renato. Hay cosas importantes que discutir.

Los esperamos.

Problem with Stagte installation

Hello everyone

After an apparent successful installation of Player I had a compilation problem that made Stage's installation impossible. When trying to generate the makefiles with cmake I get the following error:

* WebSim not detected.

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:350
(message):
None of the required 'cppunit' found
Call Stack (most recent call first):hat
libstageplugin/test/CMakeLists.txt:3 (pkg_search_module)

I searched several forums and they said that this problem has to do with the libtool package missing but I verified it and it is already installed.

Hope any of you can help me with this problem.

Greetings!