[ros-users] ROS on opensuse 11.3
Tully Foote
tfoote at willowgarage.com
Wed Dec 22 22:07:24 UTC 2010
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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Tully Foote
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