Hi,

I'm following the installation notes found on ros.org for Fedora - link

Last successful move:

rosinstall --catkin ~/ros-underlay http://ros.org/rosinstalls/fuerte-ros-full.rosinstall

Then the following:

cd ~/ros-underlay
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ros/fuerte -DSETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT=OFFLS_DEB_LAYOUT=OFF

The last command fails, noting that:

-- Could NOT find Boost
CMake Error at rospack/CMakeLists.txt:31 (message):
Couldn't find Boost
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I've checked the CMakeList.txt in rospack, at line 31:

find_package(Boost 1.40.0 COMPONENTS system filesystem program_options)
if(NOT Boost_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "Couldn't find Boost")
endif()

I've noticed, that on my system - Fedora 18 x64 - the boost package is version 1.50.0. Replacing the numbers did not help. I've also tried to replace this code by a solution from stackoverflow:

FIND_PACKAGE(Boost)
IF (Boost_FOUND)
    INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
    ADD_DEFINITIONS( "-DHAS_BOOST" )
ENDIF()

None of these worked.

Btw, is a full ROS install from source on Fedora a feasible task?

I've used 12.04 only for ROS, but I like Fedora better. It would be nice to have ROS working on this system.