[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Buildfarm] Provide official Raspbian packages

[Christian Rauch]

There seems to be a lot of interest in using ROS on Raspberry Pis. The solutions that I have seen so far are either to compile ROS manually for Raspbian, which is not straightforward, or to just use Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.
However, Raspbian still provides the best support for all Raspberry Pi versions, including version 1 and Zero, and I think that officially supporting Raspbian by providing Debian packages would help a lot of people to get started with ROS on Raspberry Pi.

What are the blocking issues that prevent the build farm to build Debian packages for **Raspbian Stretch**? The only issue I see are the drivers for low-level camera and media-codec access, which are not available on other distributions. Apart from this, Raspbian Stretch contains all necessary packages to build the full ROS desktop stack.





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