[ros-users] ROS on opensuse 11.3

[Murilo Fernandes Martins]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your message! I actually saw your post and this answer before,
but I was hoping this issue would've been sorted by now.

It's a shame that ROS does not even recognise opensuse. I'm very curious to
know the reasons...

I won't have time to look into patching rosdep to include opensuse support,
but I took the short route and tried to manually install the rosdeps.
Running "rosmake --no-rosdep rostest", the output said 0 fail (or something
along those lines -- I don't remember now).

The fact is that I don't know how to proceed with the installation.
Documentation is very poor in that respect.

If anyone could help me out pointing me to the right direction, I would be
grateful!

Cheers,

Murilo



On 21 December 2010 17:02, Benjamin Cohen <bencohen2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Murilo,
>
> A while back I asked about the ROS support on OpenSuse 11.2 and I was told
> that while there is no current support right now, it isn't that difficult to
> add official support myself. My need to get it working immediately on
> OpenSuse might have gone away (I was interested in installing ros on the
> machines a linux lab at my school for a class next semester) so I won't be
> getting around to it anytime soon. I copied and pasted Tully's directions
> from his response to me on Oct 27. If you decide to go through with adding
> suse support, it would be great if you can keep the list updated on your
> progress :).
>
> Hi Ben,
> It should be possible.  I don't know how recently people have tried those
> instructions.  The biggest challenge you will face is that I see that SuSE
> is not detected by rosdep, and I don't think that there are any definitions
> of rosdeps for SuSE either.
>
> This gives you two options.  One is to manually install all the rosdeps
> manually.  The other option is to patch rosdep to support SuSE.  There are
> two parts to this.  One is adding the OS detector,
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep/Tutorials/Add%20Support%20for%20an%20OS%20to%20rosdep
> and the other is to add SuSE defintions for all the things in rosdep.yaml
> files,
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep/Tutorials/Add%20new%20OS%20to%20rosdep.yaml
>
> I would recommend option 2.  It is a little bit more work, but that likely
> will save you work in the long run since you don't have to disable rosdep
> checking.  Also the incremental difference in effort is small and a lot of
> SuSE users would be appreciative.
>
> The graphics cards may be a problem for visualization, but often you won't
> know until you try.  Some collected statistics
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements
>
>
> Let me know if I can help at all.  It would be great to be able to improve
> support for SuSE.
> Tully
>
>
> -- ben
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Murilo Fernandes Martins <
> muhrix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone has managed to install ROS on opensuse
>> 11.3.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Murilo
>>
>>
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