Issues installing ROS on Ubuntu and Mint [closed]
There seems to be a fundamental constraint when attempting to install ROS Groovy. The install depends on Boost >= 1.49 and there does not appear to be a .deb available for any version of Boost > 1.48 in any of the repositories. Downloading, building, and installing Boost separately does no good because the apt-get DB will not resolve the dependency and ros-groovy-rospack will not install at all. Of course, this pretty much removes any option other than attempting to do a generic source installation and that will also eventually fail for exactly the same reason when running rosdep. I have tried to install ROS on both Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 LTS as well as Mint 13 with no success, although I did get quite a bit further on Mint with the generic source install. Bottom line: if any system depends on the apt-get DB in order to install and those packages are not available in the normal repositories, then it is a very short trip. ROS may benefit from using the standard platform-independent configure scripts that have worked just fine now for decades.
apt-get install should work fine for ROS on ubuntu. If you want some help, please start posting the exact errors you get and your sources.list entries.
I do not need help. The dependencies are what they are and whether or not it should work is not important. It does not work. The dependency on Boost >= 1.49 simply cannot be circumvented unless you know of a apt-get repository that distributes it.
If you don't need help, you are at the wrong place. This is for getting help. With "should work" I meant that it is supposed to work, I just can't verify it as I'm on Oneiric. apt-get for Precise + groovy does work in principle.
@jspahn Please be polite and follow the support guidelines. http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support FYI: Ubuntu Precise 12.04 is our default development platform and ROS does not require boost 1.49. In future questions please provide enough information to reproduce your problems.