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Hi,

I just installed ROS diamondback from the maverick apt sources on Ubuntu 11.04. I'm using only very few stacks, but they seem to work fine. Is there any place where tips about ROS on 11.04 are collected? The fixes I needed to make are the following:

1) The package ros-diamondback-geometry depends on renamed packages sip4 (now python-sip) and python-sip4-dev (now python-sip-dev). To resolve this I created dummy packages with the old names, depending on the new packages. For this I used the tool 'equivs' with minimal config files:

sip4.conf:

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

Package: sip4
Depends: python-sip
Description: temporary package to satisfy dependencies of Ubuntu 10.10 packages on 11.04

python-sip4-dev.conf:

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

Package: python-sip4-dev
Depends: python-sip-dev
Description: temporary package to satisfy dependencies of Ubuntu 10.10 packages on 11.04

Then create and install these packages:

$ sudo apt-get install equivs
$ equivs-build sip4.conf
$ equivs-build python-sip4-dev.conf
$ sudo dpkg -i sip4_1.0_all.deb python-sip4-dev_1.0_all.deb

2) To get rid of some compile time dependency errors I added a local rosdep.yaml in the ROS_HOME (usually ~/.ros):

boost:
  ubuntu:
    '11.04': libboost-all-dev
libtool:
  ubuntu: 
    '11.04': libtool libltdl-dev
python-qt4-dev:
  ubuntu: 
    '11.04': python-qt4-dev
python-sip-dev:
  ubuntu: 
    '11.04': python-sip-dev

Good luck Dorian