Phidgets Installation

Core Libraries

Get the core phidgets libraries from www.phidgets.com drivers.

Note: using Synaptic to get the phidgets drivers will not give you the correct version.

• I got libphidget-2.1.8.20120503
• untar
• cd libphidget-2.1.8.20120503
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install

sound_play

Sound play is required for ROS phidgets to build and install.

sound_play fix

As root or using sudo

• add the following to the end of /opt/ros/electric/ros/rosdep.yaml

python-pygame:
  ubuntu: python-pygame

• svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/sound_drivers/tags/latest/sound_play/
• cd sound_play

In the following steps it complained about festival missing - but it is there. I wonder if the following steps are not necessary for ROS phidgets to install in the following section.

• With Synaptic get festival
• rosmake --rosdep-install sound_play

ROS Phidgets

Be sure to quit Synaptic. It will lock the repository so that the dependencies cannot be loaded below.

download

• Download file: phidgets-ros-pkg-1.40.tar.gz

As root

• untar in /opt/ros/electric/stacks/phidgets
• rosmake --rosdep-install phidgets