Hi, I actually don't see where the instructions at [1] require installation of ROS debs. Anyway, I guess this question has already been asked at answers.ros.org [2] and you should probably open an new question if you have problems compiling Fuerte there. Lorenz [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Ubuntu/Source [2] http://answers.ros.org/question/32867/ros-for-ubuntu-precise-1204 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Patrick Beeson wrote: > I forget, but it gets hairy when forcing Oneirc debs under Precise.  That > is, even the "source install" requires some number of ROS deb packages to > installed. And even getting around this, it requires older versions of > boost, g++, etc. I am unsure why the Oneirc deb files for Fuerte require > EXACT package versions instead of >=. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Bohren > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Patrick Beeson  wrote: >> >> I asked this last week and got no response, so I figured I'd try one last >> time.  Is there an ETA on Ubuntu 12.04 install for Fuerte?  As of now >> neither electric nor Fuerte will install on Precise  --no debs and the >> manual install instructions fail a good ways in. > > > At what point do the source installs fail? Did you install the necessary 3rd > party dependencies? > > -j > > -- > Jonathan Bohren > PhD Student > Dynamical Systems and Control Laboratory > Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics > The Johns Hopkins University > > (707) 520-4736 > jbo@jhu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Lorenz Mösenlechner            | moesenle@in.tum.de Technische Universität München | Karlstraße 45 80335 München                  | Germany http://ias.cs.tum.edu/         | Tel: +49 (89) 289-26910