Some students have developed some code using ROS that I would like to make use of. The obvious, easy solution is to install Ubuntu on a computer and use it that way, but I've been trying to see how much of a hassle it would be to set things up on my Fedora 18 desktop.
I've had some success following the instructions at http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Fedora and making use of the packages from http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/rospackages/. As far as I can recall -- wasn't taking notes, unfortunately -- the following are the things I had to modify from the instructions given on that page:
- installed python-rosinstall, python-rospkg and python-rosdep (and ros-release) from the fedorapeople repo instead of using python-pip
- downloaded http://ros.org/rosinstalls/fuerte-ros-full.rosinstall and changed the path for actionlib to refer to ros-gbp instead of wg-debs
- created an appropriate rosdep-fedora.yaml file as described here (https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3929)
- edited CMakeCache.txt after running cmake to set SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA to an empty string before running "make install" (SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT seems not to work quite right)
- created a symlink dist-packages -> site-packages inside /opt/ros/fuerte/lib/python2.7, again because the deb layout seemed to be getting in the way
- added "set (PythonLibs_FIND_VERSION 2)" before all "find_package (PythonLibs)" calls in all CMakeLists.txt files (in the underlay and the actual OS) so that it finds Python 2 instead of Python 3
- added "rosbuild_link_boost ($executable system)" to various CMakeLists.txt files -- with Boost 1.50.0, you have to explicitly link against the system lib or else you get undefined references to symbols like '_ZN5boost6system15system_categoryEv'
But now, unfortunately, I've hit "the pcl issue" (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/robotics/2012/000671.html). The specific symptom is as follows (in the middle of "rosmake -a"):
[rosbuild] Building package costmap_2dFailed to invoke /opt/ros/fuerte/bin/rospack deps-manifests costmap_2d[rospack] Error: package/stack costmap_2d depends on non-existent package pcl
I do have pcl-devel-1.6.0-2.fc18.x86_64 installed but it doesn't seem to help. I tried rebuilding the pcl srpm with the patch from http://dev.pointclouds.org/issues/699 (it applied with minimal fuzz), but the rpmbuild pretty much brought my fairly beefy desktop machine to its knees and I'm not sure if it will help in any case. Should I persevere with that?
Any other suggestions for getting this working? As a fallback, I can just install Ubuntu on our demo laptop, but it would be nice to have this working.
All the best,
MEF
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
Interaction Lab -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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