[ros-users] ROS on Mac-Ubuntu

[Lars Kunze]

Hi Brice,

I am using ROS with Ubuntu which is installed on a separate partition
on my MacBook for a year now and I haven't encountered any problems so
far. Also, the installation of Ubuntu was pretty  straight forward.
Concerning the support of Ubuntu on MacBooks you might want to have a
look at this website: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook

Alternatively, you can install Ubuntu in a virtual machine like
Virtual Box (http://www.virtualbox.org/). I also tried this option
first and it worked pretty well and stable. But if you want to use
some kind of 3D simulation like gazebo you may run into trouble. At
least I couldn't get manage to use it from my virtual installation.

cheers,
Lars


On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:29 AM, brice rebsamen
<brice.rebsamen at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI
>
> I'm about to buy a laptop for the project (obviously we will be
> running ROS everyday). There is a Mac culture here. But I have never
> had a Mac before. If I get one, I will probably install Ubuntu on it
> to run ROS, since it seems the Mac version of ROS is still not fully
> running. I don't want to struggle with ROS installation. I am very
> familiar with Linux but I have never installed it on a Mac, and I know
> that one of my friends had trouble with that (I think the partitioning
> phase was the problem).
>
> I'd like to get some feedback from the people on that mailing list. Is
> there anybody here using Mac and ROS (with or without Ubuntu) who
> could comment? How easy is it to install Ubuntu on a Mac? Once this is
> done, does everything works fine, especially as far as ROS is
> concerned?
>
> In the past 6 months I was working under Linux 64 bits (on a PC), and
> not everything was as smooth as the 32 bits version, there were a few
> tricks here and there...
>
> Regards
> Brice
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