解决安装ROS时出现的sudo rosdep init错误问题

解决安装ROS时出现的sudo rosdep init错误问题

目前安装ROS时输入sudo rosdep init的命令时，可能会出现以下的错误：

ERROR: cannot download default sources list from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list
Website may be down.

解决办法

• 第一步，下载包文件：

在https://github.com/ros/rosdistro下载好文件并解压，或者直接用git clone下载。

• 第二步，修改包中rosdep/source.list.d/20-default.list。将该文件中的raw.githubusercontent.com地址换成自己下载好的文件路径（注意需要加上file:）。例如：

# os-specific listings first
yaml file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/rosdep/osx-homebrew.yaml osx

# generic
yaml file:home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/rosdep/base.yaml
yaml file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/rosdep/python.yaml
yaml file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/rosdep/ruby.yaml
gbpdistro file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/releases/fuerte.yaml fuerte

# newer distributions (Groovy, Hydro, ...) must not be listed anymore, they are being fetched from the rosdistro index.yaml instead

• 第三步，修改python文件。

  修改/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/sources_list.py中的URL地址，将raw.githubusercontent.com修改为下载好的文件路径即可。例如：

# default file to download with 'init' command in order to bootstrap
# rosdep
DEFAULT_SOURCES_LIST_URL = 'file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list'

​ 同理修改/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/rep3.py为：

# location of targets file for processing gbpdistro files
REP3_TARGETS_URL = 'file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/releases/targets.yaml'

# seconds to wait before aborting download of gbpdistro data

修改/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdistro/__init__.py

# index information

DEFAULT_INDEX_URL = file:///home/robot/ros_files/rosdistro/index-v4.yaml'

def get_index_url():

注意：如果/usr/lib/python2.7文件夹中没有dist-packages文件夹，可以试着在/usr/lib/python2或者/usr/lib/python3等文件夹中找一下哪个文件夹里面有dist-packages，再修改相应的文件即可。

至此文件都已经修改完毕。可以试试sudo rosdep init命令能不能成功，如果还是不能成功，请先检查一下自己的文件路径是否正确。祝君成功！

本文主要参考了：一页遮天。感谢前辈的工作。