Manage Multiple ROS Installs

Overview

Indigo and Jade are both installed. If the following is in .bashrc

 source /opt/ros/jade/setup.bash

the bash shell comes up as jade. To change the shell to Indigo enter the following command at the shell prompt.

 source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash
   ROS_DISTRO was set to 'jade' before. Please make sure that the environment does not mix paths from different distributions.

To make sure the environment is set up correctly.

 env | grep ROS
   ROS_ROOT=/opt/ros/indigo/share/ros
   ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/opt/ros/indigo/share:/opt/ros/indigo/stacks
   ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
   ROSLISP_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES=
   ROS_DISTRO=indigo
   ROS_ETC_DIR=/opt/ros/indigo/etc/ros

Links

• Environment Tutorial

If the "ROS_DISTRO was set to 'jade' before." occurs when the bash shell starts, there may be an unintentional line in the .bashrc script that resets the environment.

• Problem with ROS_DISTRO