Please do not post questions like this here, many people subscribe to this list and we want to keep the email volume down. I will find and answer your answers.ros.org question. Again: http://wiki.ros.org/Support On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Dear William, > > thank you for your answer. > > maybe I get it wrong.. but your answer is not what I'm asking for. > > I already have been to answers.ros.org and already got no useful answer > to my question. > > Maybe I should rephrase, because it seams that nobody understands my > question. > > The page you sent the link to me... Already the first command is apt-get.. > to get the tool needed to build from sources.. > apt-get install python-rosdep python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool > python-rosinstall build-essential > > so that you can start with 'rosedep init'.. > > But where do I get those tools without using the ubuntu repositories and > apt? I also tried the yum package manager (following the relative doc on > ros.org website) but it fails to find the repositories. > > Why nobody replies my question by writing here the vcs or tarball url to > the source? Or put it on a web page, so that people don't have to ask? Why > do I have to use the ubuntu repositories? This is the first opensource > project I see that is so strongly tied to canonical's ubuntu. > > I have written I'm on centos, I don't have and don't want to use apt, yum, > rpm, or whatever package manager tool.. I just want to download the source > using git, svn, ftp, scp, wget, or any other tool for transferring data > from the network. > > I don't want to sound rude.. I'm grateful for this wonderful project to be > freely available to everybody.. but I find that the url to the sources > should be well published and visible.. together with a generic linux build > and install guide.. usually it's just a matter of downloading a tarball, > extract it, cd into it and type 'make install'.. at times you may need to > do it the hard way.. you have to type './configure --prefix=/blahblah ; > make ; make install' I understand this is python.. it is an interpreted > language and it may be different.. but usually it's enough to type 'python > setup.py' (or something similar).. and that's it. > > At the end I found the sources by going to google and typing ros github.. > and there I found at the very top 'rosdistro', witch I believe and hope is > what I need.. do you believe that's normal? Why I could not find on > ros.org this link: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro.git > > I'm sure I still have to fight my way to understand what to do with it, > now that I could grab the sources (maybe wrong sources? :-D ) > > Sorry.. I'm just very tired.. it's late and now I'll go home. > > Best regards. > Robi > > > William Woodall wrote: > >> Instructions on getting the source code and building it are located here: >> http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/Source >> >> In the future please ask questions like this on the Q&A site, >> answers.ros.org . See: >> http://wiki.ros.org/Support >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roberto Nunnari > roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>> wrote: >> >> Hello. >>> >>> I'd like to install ROS on our department HPC cluster. The cluster OS is >>> CentOS 6.4. >>> >>> $ uname -rms >>> Linux 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 x86_64 >>> >>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release >>> CentOS release 6.4 (Final) >>> >>> Could anybody please tell me >>> >>> 1) where to get the sources (git or tarballs) >>> 2) what tarballs (source or binaries) to download for a minimal install >>> 3) the build/install procedure (at least the big picture) >>> >>> Thank you and best regards. >>> Robi >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- William Woodall ROS Development Team william@osrfoundation.org http://williamjwoodall.com/