2010/12/24 Willy Lambert <lambert [dot] willy [..] ...>:
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> 2010/12/24 Steven Bellens <steven [dot] bellens [..] ...>
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>> 2010/12/24 Willy Lambert <lambert [dot] willy [..] ...>:
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>> > 2010/12/24 Steven Bellens <steven [dot] bellens [..] ...>
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>> >> 2010/12/23 Willy Lambert <lambert [dot] willy [..] ...>:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > it sounds like a noobish question but I can't find how to install the
>> >> > ROS
>> >> > stack for Orocos 2.0. I a new in using ROS so maybe I missed
>> >> > something.
>> >> >
>> >> > I have a debian OS (squeeze) so I can't (at least I don't know how
>> >> > to)
>> >> > get
>> >> > prebuild aptitute packages. I tried to checkout from there :
>> >> > svn co http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg/
>> >> > but it's a 1.10 version.
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't you be able to install the ROS packages for ubuntu on your
>> >> debian system? I assume you already found the general ROS installation
>> >> instructions http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation ?
>> >
>> > Yes I already read this, but I can't simply do an apt-get install. Do i
>> > need
>> > to edit my sources.list ? May I add ubuntu packages repositories in a
>> > dedian
>> > sources.list ?
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>> Yes, you have to add the ROS repositories, as explained on that page.
>> But I see you already had some results there (ROS mailing list) and
>> were able to install some ROS packages but had problems with the
>> debian name declaration in the rosdep.yaml files?
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> My installation has been done in 2 steps. The first one was installing ROS
> and is OK (I run the turtlesim tutorials) but required some customisation
> into rosdep.yml because debian is not really supported by ROS. I received
> all needed help from ROS community.
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> Then I would like to a a new stack to my ROS system : the orocos one (btw I
> currently have a standalone Orocos installation working). And I went to
> these tutorial pages but as nothing is stated for Debian I didn't had the
> curiosity to try the ubuntu installation on my machine. I'll try it and tell
> you after Christmas.

We would be most happy to know the result. It's not tested yet, but,
as your ROS installation worked out well, I think chances are high the
orocos toolchain will install ok as well (as this is a ROS stack as
well). You'll need to update the rosdep.yaml file of course.

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> If it works, I think it is worth to precise clearly that we can install this
> on a debian with the ubuntu tutorials (and some rosdep.yml customisations)

Agree

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> P.S. :There is a typo there http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation you
> pu evn.sh instead of env.sh

Thanks, fixed that.

Steven

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>> Steven
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>> >>
>> >> I've updated the orocos_toolchain_ros wiki with installation
>> >> instructions as well: http://www.ros.org/wiki/orocos_toolchain_ros
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>> >
>> > thanks for it, I'm sure it'll help
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > BTW I can't build this because it can't find libreadline. I tried to
>> >> > edit
>> >> > rosdep.yml without success.
>> >>
>> >> What do you mean by 'without succes'?
>> >>
>> >> Steven
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