I myself am a Mac OS X user running dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04 in order to
run ROS smoothly.

I see a lot of discussion regarding running ROS on OS X 10.6, so my question
is, has anyone successfully installed and used ROS without loosing
functionality on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?

Gonçalo Cabrita

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> wrote:
> > Any chance it may work with Fedora? (I already have a ready to use FC12
> virtual box machine)
>
> hi Felix,
>
> I haven't tried it myself, but it's certainly worth a try.  We don't
> support Fedora as extensively as Ubuntu, but with the help of Fedora
> users in the ROS community, we have assembled a lot of the rosdep
> definitions for that platform.
>
>        brian.
>
> > On 4 nov. 2010, at 10:59, Tadele Shiferaw wrote:
> >
> >> I also got stuck there and I recommend  that you use the VirtualBox with
> Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Tadele
> >> On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Felix Ingrand wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am trying to run the ROS Tutorial under an OSX 10.6 machine, but I am
> getting stuck here. Anybody managed to get beyond this point? or should I
> just run a VirtualBox with Fedora or Ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance
> >>>
> >>> bash-3.2$ rosdep install turtle_teleop
> >>> Failed to find rosdep bluez for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep libbluetooth-dev for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep python-bluez for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep libx11-dev for package turtle_teleop on
> OS:macports version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep flex for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep libusb for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep bison for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> >>> Failed to find rosdep joystick for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports
> version:macports
> >>> ERROR: ABORTING: Rosdeps [u'bluez', u'libbluetooth-dev',
> u'python-bluez', u'libx11-dev', u'flex', u'libusb', u'bison', u'joystick']
> could not be resolved
> >>> bash-3.2$ roswtf
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>    Felix
> >>> Motivation: reward, bonus, carrot and stick... we got it wrong:
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/yayq6u6
> >>>
> >>>
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> > --
> >     Felix
> > This one is really funny... I love it.
> > http://tinyurl.com/nxhwyq
> >
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