I tried
export ROS_OS_OVERRIDE=ubuntu:14.04
to be able to perform rosdep update. It didn't work. Below is what happens when I try to run update. Is it possible to use ROS in Zorin OS or do I have to install an already supported distro?
root@Walkhard:~# sudo rosdep init
Wrote /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list
Recommended: please run
rosdep update
root@Walkhard:~# sudo rosdep update
reading in sources list data from /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d
Warning: running 'rosdep update' as root is not recommended.
You should run 'sudo rosdep fix-permissions' and invoke 'rosdep update' again without sudo.
Hit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/osx-homebrew.yaml
Hit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/base.yaml
Hit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/python.yaml
Hit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/rosdep/ruby.yaml
Hit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/releases/fuerte.yaml
Query rosdistro index https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/index.yaml
Add distro "groovy"
ERROR: Rosdep experienced an error: Could not detect OS, tried ['windows', 'ubuntu', 'rhel', 'qnx', 'osx', 'opensuse', 'opensuse', 'mint', 'linaro', 'gentoo', 'freebsd', 'fedora', 'debian', 'cygwin', 'centos', 'arch']
Please go to the rosdep page [1] and file a bug report with the stack trace below.
[1] : http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep
rosdep version: 0.11.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/main.py", line 136, in rosdep_main
exit_code = _rosdep_main(args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/main.py", line 343, in _rosdep_main
return _no_args_handler(command, parser, options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/main.py", line 351, in _no_args_handler
return command_handlers[command](options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/main.py", line 533, in command_update
error_handler=update_error_handler)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/sources_list.py", line 466, in update_sources_list
rosdep_data = get_gbprepo_as_rosdep_data(dist_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/gbpdistro_support.py", line 147, in get_gbprepo_as_rosdep_data
ctx = create_default_installer_context()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/__init__.py", line 85, in create_default_installer_context
m.register_platforms(context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/platforms/debian.py", line 50, in register_platforms
register_linaro(context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/platforms/debian.py", line 63, in register_linaro
(os_name, os_version) = context.get_os_name_and_version()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdep2/installers.py", line 112, in get_os_name_and_version
os_name = self.os_detect.get_name()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospkg/os_detect.py", line 518, in get_name
self.detect_os()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospkg/os_detect.py", line 488, in detect_os
raise OsNotDetected("Could not detect OS, tried %s"%attempted)
OsNotDetected: Could not detect OS, tried ['windows', 'ubuntu', 'rhel', 'qnx', 'osx', 'opensuse', 'opensuse', 'mint', 'linaro', 'gentoo', 'freebsd', 'fedora', 'debian', 'cygwin', 'centos', 'arch']