Can we install ros Hydro on Ubuntu 13.10

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There are no official Debian packages for Ubuntu Saucy (13.10) (see http://ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html#hydro-medusa-apr-2013).

But you should be able to compile everything from source fairly easy. Eventually some system package names have changes and you need to figure them out manually or provide updated mapping for saucy back to the rosdep database (see https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yaml#L275) in order for rosdep install to work properly.

Worry no more! Where there is a hack... there is a way! Now, I have just installed Ubuntu 13.10 to later find out that it is not supported by Hydro... Sad but true...

Anyway, the thing is that the meta-package ros-hydro-desktop-full installs also gazebo, which is a simulator that requires libogre-dev to be installed. libogre-dev on the other hand needs libboost1.49 but everyone else has already already moved on to libboost1.53...

So what do we do? Simple... We compile libogre-dev and make it look like it is native package installed! This means that you have to: 1) Install libboost1.53-all-dev ( I install it all, so dependency won't be a problem) 2) Download libogre-dev source code from http://bitbucket.org/cabalistic/ogredeps 3) Cmake the project and generate the Makefile 4) Use 'sudo checkinstall' ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/u... ) to generate and install your libogre-dev package. BUT REMEMBER TO CHANGE THE FOLLOWING: Name of the Package: libogre-dev Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7 This way you are tricking ubuntu's package management system into thinking you have the original package. OBS: At this point, you have installed a libogre-dev that has been compiled with libboost1.53. I don't guarantee that gazebo will run perfectly or that it will work at all...

5) Proceed with ROS for Raring as described here: http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installatio...

See ya