am doing a dual boot with 10.04 Lucid and OSX 10.6.4 on a MBP Works perfectly nice, I have cturtle pr2_all and all the pr2 stuff work On 10 September 2010 23:22, wrote: > Patrick, > > > > I have successfully got the following to work on a mac: > > -> Box turtle on 10.5 with nav_view working but not rviz > > -> Cturtle on 10.6 without ogre_tools compiling (yet) and so no > nav_view/rviz. > > -> Dual boot install of Ubuntu 9.1 + ros 0.8 and all the above tools > working. > > > > These were all base_installs so no PR2 support (but it was enough > to develop on another robotic platform we are building). Earliers mails on > this thread indicated that it is not possible to get PR2 > > support anytime soon but that might not apply to simulation. > > > > I basically followed the instructions on the OSX page of the ros > wiki. For 10.6 you need to do some tweaks to make the python frameworks > > play nice ( I think those are kind of explained in that page now). > > > > As the Mac documentation states, packages on top of the > base_install have not been tested and might have broken dependencies or need > changes to work. I have had some luck getting > > help from the ROS package maintainers to get some stuff to work, but you > might be better off trying the virtual box or dual boot option if you neeed > PR2 but aren't tied to Mac OS X. > > > > Anyway, I can try to answer specific issues you have run into on a > Mac install. > > > > ~Deepak > > > > > > *Ken Conley * > Sent by: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org > 09/10/2010 01:59 PMPlease respond toros-users@code.ros.org > > To ros-users@code.ros.org > cc > bcc Deepak Ramachandran/HRA/ASC/HONDA > Subject Re: [ros-users] PR2 development on a MAC > > > Hi Patrick, > > I believe Deepak was referring to installing ROS libraries unrelated > to the PR2. > > As mentioned in the previous e-mail exchanges, you should use an > Ubuntu setup to use the PR2. It is highly unlikely that you will get a > proper set of PR2 libraries working on OS X. A Virtual Box setup will > work if you are not doing visualizations or using the gazebo > simulator. The best setup would be a dual-boot. > > - Ken > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote: > > I am interested in using a Macintosh (running 10.6.4) as a development > > platform for PR2 projects. Right now, I don't know what I don't know. > > > > I followed the instructions given on the Wiki > > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/OSX) for installing the > > software on a Mac. While the software seemed to install fine (once I > > created a case-sensitive disk image in which to install the code), the > > tutorial falls apart at the "rosdep install turtle_teleop" step due to > > a lack of Bluetooth and other libraries. (I described this here: > > https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2061/8495). > > > > I found a thread > > (https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2086/8604) > > where the poster (Deepak) claimed that CTurtle was successfully > > installed on MAC OS 10.6, but he unable to get Ogre working. > > > > As I said, right now I don't know what I don't know. And I would like > > to rectify that. I don't really know how much of what I don't know is > > related to ROS, CTurtle, Ogre, Gazebo, or MAC OS incompatibilities in > > general. > > > > So I'll ask the questions... please feel free to point me at > > documentation I should have already read... > > > > What is involved in running a PR2 simulation development environment on a > MAC? > > > > It seems to me that I would need to follow the MAC OS instructions > > given on the Wiki and use rosinstall. Is that the same as saying "I > > have installed CTurtle" or did Deepak mean something else when he > > said that? > > > > I see in the Wiki several components require OGRE and I see > > instructions for installing that. I also see Deepak's post saying > > that he tried that and ran into problems. If I want to do PR2 > > development, do I need to install OGRE? > > > > If we were to assume that (for some reason) I had better luck than > > Deepak, what else would I need to install? I think I saw something > > about installing NVIDIA Cg from the nvidia site. What else would be > > required? > > > > I just noticed a comment on the OS X page that "At the time of > > writing, gazebo does not built on OS X, for reasons unrelated to > > OGRE". Is that still true? Am I doomed to failure if I get to this > > point? > > > > That's probably enough for now. Thanks for reading this far. > > > > --wpd > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Viele Gruss/Best Regards, Billy Okal Jacobs University Bremen #5383, MA 333 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "sure vi is user friendly, its just particular about who to be friends with"