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However I noticed some issues with the instructions provided. These are very minor \"issues\", but can be improved for beginners or people unfamiliar with ROS to an extent as per me. \r\n\r\nAre all the instructions in \"Cloning the necessary ROS packages\" required to be executed under catkin_ws/src/ ? Because after cloning rotors_simulator.git you need to checkout sonar_plugin, which can be done only when you are in the rotors_simulator folder. This is followed by the wstool instructions. Are they supposed to be executed under /src/ ?\r\n\r\n\"wstool update -t src rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y\"\r\n\r\nWhat exactly is --from-paths here? As per http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Source#Resolving_Dependencies it's not supposed to be replaced by any actual path and is just another option/flag to set. But it throws an error at me: \"no such option: --from-paths\"\r\n\r\nSo what step(s) am I missing here? \r\n\r\n[Using ROS/Gazebo Simulator with SITL](http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/using-rosgazebo-simulator-with-sitl/)\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/diydrones/ardupilot-wiki-issue-tracker/issues/comments/151658778","html_url":"https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot-wiki-issue-tracker/issues/194#issuecomment-151658778","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/diydrones/ardupilot-wiki-issue-tracker/issues/194","id":151658778,"user":{"login":"sahiljuneja","id":12501638,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12501638?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja","html_url":"https://github.com/sahiljuneja","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sahiljuneja/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-27T22:03:17Z","updated_at":"2015-10-27T22:03:17Z","body":"Thanks for the reply @alexbuyval \r\n\r\nRunning catkin_make after that is still showing errors. This time -\r\n\r\n> Could not find a package configuration file provided by \"octomap_msgs\" with any of the following names:\r\n\r\n> octomap_msgsConfig.cmake\r\n> octomap_msgs-config.cmake\r\n\r\nI can go ahead and install these packages myself. But I have two questions -\r\n\r\nFor any such errors should I stick with the source provided on the official ROS Wiki page to download the package? (http://wiki.ros.org/octomap_msgs) Because for mav_comm the source mentioned in ROS wiki was different from your suggestion.\r\n\r\n\r\nDo you think all these packages need to be mentioned in the dev page - http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/using-rosgazebo-simulator-with-sitl/\r\nBecause I think they should be mentioned for someone who is trying to use ROS just for this. I guess a lot of students or researchers would find this helpful in the long run and it's better to add what packages might be required that weren't installed with ROS itself. Your feedback on this @hamishwillee  is also welcome!"}}