ROS on Ubuntu Wily
Will the latest Ubuntu be supported any time soon?
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Quoting from here, Jade only supports "Trusty (14.04), Utopic (14.10) and Vivid (15.04) for debian packages." Reading the ROS Release Policy we see that
ROS releases will also not add support for new Ubuntu releases after its release date.
This means that Jade will not ever support Wily (15.10) with debian packages. Next May when ROS K is released, it will likely support 15.10, but only through the end of July (when 15.10 reaches EOL). ROS K will be an LTS release paired with Xenial (16.04) as its LTS distribution.
You can always try building ROS from source if you are stuck on 15.10.
Yes it is possible to install Ros in Ubuntu 15.10. As @jarvisschultz pointed out, Indigo is not officially supported on Ubuntu Wily. Unresolvable dependencies are exactly the kind of issue you could run into. You could attempt to install a full stack from-source by using a chroot.
How to install Ros Indigo on Ubuntu 15.10 in a Chroot? is how to do it, I've tested it and it works.
You will need to install schroot and debootstrap to prevent damages. Just isolate ROS from the rest of your computer, by putting it in a chroot jail.
Hope it helps. Gepp
References:
The official guide for installation from source which will fail during the Resolving Dependencies step. The rosdep tools returns several errors such as:
gazebo_plugins: No definition of [gazebo] for OS version [wily]
Hope it helps!
I managed to build ROS jade on Ubuntu Willy compiling from sources. Until the moment It works nice:
I installed many packages, among them: navigation rviz gmapping hector_slam rqt
rosinstall_generator gmapping hector_slam navigation rviz rqt ros_comm --rosdistro jade --deps --wet-only --exclude roslisp --tar > my_application.rosinstall
The dependencies I had to install were:
sudo apt-get install libtinyxml-dev lz4 liblz4-dev BZip2 libz2-dev libbz2-dev liburdf-dom-headers-dev libgtest-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev liburdfdom-dev libogre1.8-dev libassimp-dev python-netifaces
Download it
wstool init -j10 src my_application.rosinstall
Compile it
./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --devel devel_isolated --devel-space devel_isolated -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
Install it
./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --devel devel_isolated --devel-space devel_isolated -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --install
Asked: 2015-10-28 12:22:21 -0500
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Last updated: Mar 12 '16
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