Any useful info please.
I'd rather install Diamondback than CTurtle. You definitely have to use SVN-install. Also, as I already pointed out in your earlier post, read REP108. Then just do as it says on the Wiki Diamondback SVN installation page, possibly replacing variant with one of those more suitable for your needs as described in the aforementioned REP108.
EDIT (see Koen's posts in this thread !!): An other possibility is using installation scripts provided by Koen Buys on his page.
You can also read my previous posts, they, for now, mainly regard the issue of your interest.
Cheers, Tom
I was able to successfully install ROS on an IGEPv2 board, which is very similar to the original Beagleboard. Here's a rough list of steps:
You'll have to get a working Ubuntu 10.10 install on the Beagleboard.
Next, do an SVN-based install. You can find directions for Cturtle at Installing on Ubuntu from SVN. This will take some time to install, as it will have to build a lot from source on the Beagleboard. You may also have to skip installing certain packages that include GUI things. For example, I don't remember if Ogre compiled successfully on my IGEPv2 board - if it didn't, then anything that depends on Ogre such as rviz would fail to compile. However, since I intended the board to be a headless computer, I didn't really care much if visualization tools failed to compile and install.
If you prefer to cross-compile, checkout the docs for eros, which is a set of packages and tools for cross-compiling and install ROS on embedded systems.
We did the same on Beagleboard and Beagleboard XM, however we didn't install any X-server related things because we only use it to interface robots (Pioneer + Peoplebot) or sensors (Hokuyo, Sick, ...) to the network. I had an old SD card image on my website, I'll take the time to put a new one online, if people show interest for it. We'll soon be putting a crosscompile toolchain tutorial online for the Beagleboard (after it got tested with students in a course).
I've also got some binaries online, but that are old ones, also the install script is an old one. I need to update it, but I'm currently lacking the time. (patches are always gratefully accepted)
Asked: Feb 22 '11
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