Stuck installing ros-melodic-pcl-conversions

[VSK]

Hello

I have installed ROS in VOXL 2 board using the instructions in the link https://docs.modalai.com/ros-installation-voxl2/.
When I tried installing ros-melodic-PCL-conversions it took more than 30 minutes trying to install python-twisted-core

Are there any alternatives or steps I am missing ...

[Zachary Lowell 0]

@vicky-s-karthik mind posting the exact commands that you ran?

ROS melodic is fully deprecated - so my recommendation is to move over to ros2 foxy which is what we support on the voxl2 as of right now. I will try and recreate your issue in the meantime. Please try installing ros melodic base as the cv2 instance on there conflicts with opencv on voxl-sdk.

[VSK]

@Zachary-Lowell-0
The voxl2 board has the Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS OS on it.
So I installed ROS Medolic as mentioned in https://docs.modalai.com/ros-installation-voxl2/

Then I tried installing the ros packages using the following command
sudo apt-get install -y ros-melodic-pcl-ros ros-melodic-pcl-conversions
but the installation is getting stuck at Setting up python-twisted-core (17.9.0-2ubuntu0.3)

I ran tail -f /var/log/dpkg.log to check the status which showed
configure python-twisted-core:all 17.9.0-2ubuntu0.3 <none>
status half-configured python-twisted-core:all 17.9.0-2ubuntu0.3

[VSK]

@Zachary-Lowell-0
Due to project requirements, I cannot change the OS version
Please find the installation commands used
voxl2:/$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
voxl2:/$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654
voxl2:/$ sudo apt update
voxl2:/$ apt install -y ros-melodic-ros-base ros-melodic-image-transport

[teddy.zaremba]

@VSK said in Stuck installing ros-melodic-pcl-conversions:

configure python-twisted-core:all 17.9.0-2ubuntu0.3 <none>
status half-configured python-twisted-core:all 17.9.0-2ubuntu0.3

Maybe that package got corrupted on the install. Can you try running sudo apt-get clean?

If that doesn't work, you could also try removing both of the packages and do the install again.

$ sudo apt remove  python-twisted-core:all
$ sudo apt remove ros-melodic-pcl-ros ros-melodic-pcl-conversions