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!

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!

Player/Stage reinstallation process

Hi everyone:

Today I downloaded the .tar.gz of the latest versions of player and stage. I installed them according to the instructions included on the INSTALL.txt files. I had no trouble installing player, however, once again I had some problems while exporting the paths of the libraries that Stage requires.

The first problem I had after installing Stage and running the simple.cfg file was the following one:
layer: error while loading shared libraries: libplayerdrivers.so.3.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This problem I solved by making a symbolic link (with ldconfig).

After doing this, the drivers library was no longer a problem, However, the following errors were then displayed:


error : Failed to load plugin stageplugin.
error : libtool reports error: file not found
error : plugin search path: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/laura/playerstage/bin:/home/laura/playerstage/share/stage/worlds:/home/laura/Documents/Stage-3.2.0-Source/worlds:.:/usr/local/lib/
error : failed to load plugin: stageplugin
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks

The path being searched to find the plugin was quite disturbing... I remembered that I had already exported this paths during my first installation process some months ago.

I then eliminated some lines from the .bashrc files and made other exports with the help of Arturo and ended up with the following errors:

error : Failed to load plugin stageplugin.
error : libtool reports error: file not found
error : plugin search path: /home/laura/Documents/Stage-3.2.0-Source/worlds:.:/usr/local/lib/
error : failed to load plugin: stageplugin
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks

The path being searched now is only doubled, however we weren't able to find where was the first path located in order to get rid of it.

I also want to tell you that the newest versions of player stage have quite clear instructions in comparison with the previous ones. The indications of path exports are included and examples are relatively clear. This is why, if I don't find the solution to the path dilemma, I will start the installation all over again publishing every step I make in order for you to make some comments on the curious facts that you notice.

Regards!

Laura

Problems in the Nero's OS

Hi,

Yesterday I try to install Ubuntu in "Nero". But I have one "little" problem I can't connect the CD player because I don't have the AC cable. So, if anyone have "one" haha :) Can he/she lend me for the "cause"? haha :) And with this I hope we can know what is the problem... the HD or anything else ...

Cheers,

Carlos L

In the other hand, I was thinking in the OS we will install, and I think the best option is the same Ubuntu OS that "Pio" have. Maybe Carlos G, Laura and Arturo can say me what Ubuntu "Distro" is, to find and download it.