installing ros diamondback on ubuntu 11.10 oneiric ocelot

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Similar to in earlier versions, you can make packages meant for natty narwhal work on oneiric ocelot.

I successfully tried the following with electric, but it should also work with diamondback.

• Add the latest package source (in this case: Natty) to your sources.list (electric, diamondback).

• Install freeglut3-dev, which replaced libglut3-dev in oneiric:

  sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

• Install equivs, which will allow you to create pseudo-packages:

  sudo apt-get install equivs

• Create a file libglut3-dev.conf for the pseudo package linking libglut3-dev and freeglut3-dev:

  Section: misc

  Priority: optional

  Standards-Version: 3.6.2

  Package: libglut3-dev

  Depends: freeglut3-dev

  Description: temporary package to satisfy dependencies of Ubuntu 11.04 packages on 11.10

• Convert it to an actual package and install it:

  equivs-build libglut3-dev.conf

  sudo dpkg -i libglut3-dev_1.0_all.deb

• You should now be able to install the full ros desktop using one of the following

  sudo apt-get install ros-electric-desktop-full

  sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-desktop-full

• Now you still cannot use opencv and some other packages as they are linked against old versions of some libraries. Download and install the following packages taken from natty to get these to work anyway. Choose the correct link according to your architecture:

  libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavutil50 libavutil-extra-50 libswscale0 libtinyxml2.5.3 libvtk5.4

  Afterwards, install all of these packages using

  sudo dpkg -i *.deb

  wherever you downloaded them to.

Hi,

I've followed sebsch steps. I've been able to install ros-electric-openni-kinect, but when I run 'roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch' I'm having problems:

[ INFO] [1319803138.008822101]: [/openni_node1] Number devices connected: 1
[ INFO] [1319803138.009765236]: [/openni_node1] 1. device on bus 001:09 is a Xbox NUI Camera (2ae) from Microsoft (45e) with serial id 'A00362904858048A'
[ INFO] [1319803138.017595280]: [/openni_node1] searching for device with index = 1
[ INFO] [1319803138.031111872]: [/openni_node1] No matching device found.... waiting for devices. Reason: openni_wrapper::OpenNIDevice::OpenNIDevice(xn::Context&, const xn::NodeInfo&, const xn::NodeInfo&, const xn::NodeInfo&, const xn::NodeInfo&) @ /tmp/buildd/ros-electric-openni-kinect-0.3.1/debian/ros-electric-openni-kinect/opt/ros/electric/stacks/openni_kinect/openni_camera/src/openni_device.cpp @ 61 : creating depth generator failed. Reason: The network connection has been closed!

I've been looking how to fix it, but I've not found anything so far. Any hint?

Just my two cents,

installing the 11.04 packages of ros-base for electric on 11.10 was OK. Quickly tested it running the python publisher/subscriber tutorial which also worked fine.

I was able to install Electric on 11.10 from source.

The basic rosmake --rosdep-install built without a problem, but I had troubles getting rviz running. I downloaded yaml-cpp from source, and used the ogre repositories to install assimp, from this page.

Also, my wxpropgrid tar was corrupt, so I had to roscd to the wxpropgrid package and re-make.

I am sure there are broken deps I didn't run into, but hopefully its enough to get you started.

Is there going to be a Diamondback install package for Ubuntu 11.10 and if so when?