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I believe the cleanest way (as in least amount of restrictions for the future) is to build ROS on CentOS. I have no experience with that, but I would guess that this should not be that hard. The important thing to note is that for the things that you want to do, you only need the core ROS libraries, i.e. middleware, build system (catkin), message generation.

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