"apt-get install robot-viewer" returns a syntax error

[francois-keith]

Hi,

I tried installing robot-viewer via the binary package placed on ppa:dang-duong/ppa
on my Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bits).
I tried on 3 machines and obtained the following error message:

$ apt-get install robot-viewer
...
Compiling /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/robotviewer/legacy.py ...
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/robotviewer/legacy.py', 19, 31, 'def parse_config(self, config)\n'))

If I launch the command a second time

apt-get install robot-viewer

then it ends correctly.

Yet, when I run robotviewer, I obtain the following error if the file .robotviewer/config does not exist

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/robotviewer/kinematic_server.py", line 225, in parse_configLegacy
    legacy.parse_config(self, config)
NameError: global name 'legacy' is not defined

Note also that the folder .robotviewer and the symbolic links it includes are only defined after I run the command robotviewer once.

Francois