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Hello.
I'd like to install ROS on our department HPC cluster. The cluster OS is CentOS 6.4.
$ uname -rms
Linux 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 x86_64
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
Could anybody please tell me
1) what packages (source or binaries) to download
2) the install procedure
Thank you and best regards. Robi
As the others have said, this page has everything you need:
http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/Source
You will have to find the CentOS equivalents to the things in the first paragraph. @Dirk Thomas just updated the above page with instructions about how to install the prerequisites on non-Ubuntu OS's.
I understand your want for the links to the tarballs, but some of these prerequisites are not published by us (Make, CMake, compiler, etc...) and the others are distributed as build tools, if you want their sources, you can simply treat them as normal Python packages. That means installed via pip, the instructions for this are now in the wiki page, and the sources obtainable from pypi.python.org, e.g. rosdep is installed with [sudo] pip install rosdep and the source can be located here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rosdep
Once you have moved pass the prerequisites then comes the source code for the ROS packages and the instructions on the above wiki page tell you exactly how to get the source code via tarballs.
Since the ROS ecosystem is very large (hundreds of packages) we provide the rosinstall_generator tool to figure out what tar balls you need. For example, to get all of the source for roscpp, this command would be used:
% rosinstall_generator --deps --tar --rosdistro hydro roscpp
- tar:
local-name: catkin
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/catkin-release/archive/release/hydro/catkin/0.5.79-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/catkin-release/archive/release/hydro/catkin/0.5.79-0.tar.gz</a>
version: catkin-release-release-hydro-catkin-0.5.79-0
- tar:
local-name: console_bridge
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/console_bridge-release/archive/release/hydro/console_bridge/0.2.4-1.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/console_bridge-release/archive/release/hydro/console_bridge/0.2.4-1.tar.gz</a>
version: console_bridge-release-release-hydro-console_bridge-0.2.4-1
- tar:
local-name: cpp_common
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/roscpp_core-release/archive/release/hydro/cpp_common/0.3.17-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/roscpp_core-release/archive/release/hydro/cpp_common/0.3.17-0.tar.gz</a>
version: roscpp_core-release-release-hydro-cpp_common-0.3.17-0
- tar:
local-name: gencpp
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/gencpp-release/archive/release/hydro/gencpp/0.4.15-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/gencpp-release/archive/release/hydro/gencpp/0.4.15-0.tar.gz</a>
version: gencpp-release-release-hydro-gencpp-0.4.15-0
- tar:
local-name: genlisp
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/genlisp-release/archive/release/hydro/genlisp/0.4.12-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/genlisp-release/archive/release/hydro/genlisp/0.4.12-0.tar.gz</a>
version: genlisp-release-release-hydro-genlisp-0.4.12-0
- tar:
local-name: genmsg
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/genmsg-release/archive/release/hydro/genmsg/0.4.24-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/genmsg-release/archive/release/hydro/genmsg/0.4.24-0.tar.gz</a>
version: genmsg-release-release-hydro-genmsg-0.4.24-0
- tar:
local-name: genpy
uri: <a href="https://github.com/ros-gbp/genpy-release/archive/release/hydro/genpy/0.4.15-0.tar.gz">https://github.com/ros-gbp/genpy-release/archive/release/hydro/genpy/0.4.15-0.tar.gz</a>
version: genpy-release-release-hydro-genpy-0.4.15-0
- tar:
local-name: message_generation
uri ...Hello,
ROS is highly distributed across a large number of repositories since it is largely community-sourced, so there is no single repository we can point you to. The core tools are at: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm and that's a good place to start. Then, search for each package you need and get its source. Those core tools are enough for message passing and such. If you need help finding a specific package (ie if your using your HPC for map building you would need to get https://github.com/ros-perception/slam_gmapping and also find all of its dependencies) then let us know and we can try to help find a source.
On the topic of being heavily tied to Ubuntu: ROS will build on any linux system (in theory), the problem is that the dependency tree is so huge that it is generally not practical to install everything from source. For instance, if you wanted to install rviz then you'd need (among other things) PCL, and just building the entire PCL dependency tree entirely from source is a nightmare (in my experience). So package managers simplify everything by allowing the community to move forward with development without worrying about spending literally days finding and building huge dependency trees.
Hope this helps, Tim Sweet
Edit:
To address your second question of how to build ROS: you'll need catkin (and more specifically: catkin_make_isolated ) from https://github.com/ros/catkin which can be used to build everything, assuming you have already solved the dependency tree problem.
The ROS source is distributed across many repositories; there is no central tarball that contains all of ROS.
The basic steps for installing ROS are:
If you're doing the build for a HPC cluster, you'll either want to do the final installation to a shared filesystem (NFS etc) or distribute the resulting installation directory to all of the machines in your cluster.
I believe there are options for rosdep that allow you to query all of the system dependencies for the ROS packages that you're installing; you should be able to use this output to construct a script that installs all of the dependencies on each of your machines.
I do not believe it is supported for CentOS at this time. http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation
Seems there isn't a Hydro page yet, but the ROS wiki contains a Groovy Fedora installation page. It's all experimental, so YMMV, but it could be a start.
Don't expect to be able to yum install .. anything though.
Also, see Installing ROS in centOS on this site.
There is no single ROS tarball, because ROS is a messaging library at its core, but hundreds of robotics libraries as well.
The core sources of ros are ros and ros_comm
In principle they are build using cmake (not maketools like many other projects you know), but for various reasons they still require the catkin build tool.
To just install the ros and ros_comm packages from source, you will not need other ros-specific tools, I believe. However you would still miss many important ROS libraries and tools (E.g. action lib and tf).
As gvdhoorn explained, your best hope is to look at the installation instructions for other Linux variants, I think the ones for Groovy on Gentoo use no specific package manager for ros-related stuff:
http://wiki.ros.org/groovy/Installation/Gentoo
Another possibility for you is to try ros as provided by robotpkg
Hi all.
Thank you for your answers. I understand that CentOS is not supported.. I read it on the site.. but I'd like to install from source.. I don't want to use yum, rpm, apt.. I just want somebody tell me where to get the sources and I'll try to build it myself.. where's the git (or subversion or any other vcs system) repository for the ROS source? Are there source tarballs?
Thank you and best regards. Robi
http://wiki.ros.org/ Everything you need is on here. This is the closest I found: http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/Source
Asked: 2014-01-20 05:28:15 -0600
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