[ros-users] ROS on opensuse 11.3

[Tully Foote]

Hi Murlio,

rosmake builds all packages and stacks listed as arguments as well as their
dependencies.  rostest happens to be a package which depends on all the
necessary things for bootstrapping the ROS build.  [1] As it happens rostest
is part of our unit testing infrastructure.

We have worked hard to make the tutorials work as easily as possible for our
default platform Ubuntu. If you can provide any feedback on how to make
things easier for other distros please do let us know.

Tully

[1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/rostest

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Murilo Fernandes Martins
<muhrix at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tully,
>
> Thanks for clarifying that to me. I'm just starting using ROS and I'm
> finding myself a bit lost.
>
> Just a silly question:
> What does "rostest" do when running rosmake --no-rosdeps rostest?
> I'll start gong through the tutorials...
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Murilo
>
>
> On Wednesday, 22 December 2010, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Murilo,
> > If you got zero failures that suggests that everything built.  You should
> be able to continue with the tutorials etc just remember to add --no-rosdep
> as an option to rosmake whenever you call it.  An alias may make your life
> much easier.
> >
> > Tully
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Murilo Fernandes Martins <
> muhrix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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> > tfoote at willowgarage.com
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Tully Foote
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