[ros-users] Compiling and installing ROS in Debian Squeeze

[Willy Lambert]

2012/10/3 Leopold Palomo Avellaneda <leo at alaxarxa.net>

> Hi,
>
> as a Debian user, I have been trying to use ROS in a Debian box from
> Diamondback. I have had several problems, specially with some software not
> packaged. Now with Fuerte, I have been working in a system to install ROS
> fuerte in a Squeeze box.
>

Hi,

You are not clear about what you want to do. Do you want a Diamondback or a
Fuerte installation ?
Diamondback should be working more or less with instruction here :
http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Debian
except some "rosdep.yaml" you will have to modify (in general copying the
ubuntu line is enougth); At least, for my need this was working.

But no one has been using Debian under Fuerte for now and instructions
seems outdated.



>
> The steps in the documentation [1] doesn't work simply because not all
> needed
> dependencies are available for Squeeze. Another person, have tried to
> develop,
> something similar [2], but he didn't pass (as I understood) the Layer 2:
> Higher-level robotics libraries and tools step.
>
> Well, my idea has been repackage all possible packages from anywhere
> (ubuntu,
> testing, univers) to have all the dependencies to compile fuerte in a
> Squeeze
> box. The job is almost done [3]. Also, there's a debian-robotics.yaml file,
> with all the dependencies that I have found corrected and functional.
>
> Now, if you add this entry [4] to your
>
>  /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list
>
> file, and you add this entry to your sources file:
>
>
> # Debian Robotics
> deb http://sir.upc.es/debian-robotics squeeze-backports main
> deb-src http://sir.upc.es/debian-robotics squeeze-backports main
>
> and any backports mirror,
>
> you will be able to do a rosdep install -a in a Debian Squeeze amd64 box,
> having all the dependencies resolved.
>
> However, although I thought that all the job was done I have found that
> still
> there's a lot of minor problems that makes still difficult to compile ROS
> in a
> debian Squeeze box.
>
> First of all I have noticed that there are several packages that has a
> dependency a pcl package, when there's no pcl package, but there's a system
> dependency pcl. So, I have to change several manifest files from
>
>  <depend package="pcl" />
>
> to
>   <rosdep name="pcl" />
>
> Also, I have not be able to found which version of pcl is needed for fuerte
> (1.5, 1.6) With 1.6 it doesn't compile.
>
> Another dependency that have made me problems is opencv. With the version
> downloaded in July, I have been able to compile cv_bridge with opencv
> 2.3.1,
> however, yesterday, I have not be able to repeat the same step, and I
> suspicious that I need 2.4.
>
> Also, I don't know what to do if I have executed:
>
> rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-
> bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=fuerte&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no"
>
> and I would like to update the stacks to see if there's another upgraded
> version with some bug. Exists some kind of rosinstall --update?
>
> So, which versions of libpcl and opencv I need to compile Fuerte?
>
> Well, just to finish my intention is to publish some kind of instructions
> to
> use ROS fuerte in a Debian Squeeze, but groovy will arrive and probably my
> work would be unneeded.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
>
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Debian
> [2] https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20120925.031632.cec48145.en.html
> [3] http://sir.upc.es/debian-robotics/
> [4] http://sir.upc.es/debian-robotics/debian-robotics.yaml
>
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