[Solved] Install ROS Indigo on RaspberyPi3B under Raspbian Jessie

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Hi,

I'm currently installing ROS Indigo on my RP3B under Raspbian Jessie distro. I would like to share with you some hints for those of you attempting to do the same. I am following the instruction from ROS website

• Take a deep breath, you will need some hours to go trough the installation process (10 hours for me with the Desktop configuration)
• Make sure you have enough space on you SD card (16 GB is ok, 8 GB is small for further installations on the RP)
• Until the moment where we build the catkin workspace nothing occurs to me
• While building the catkin_ws :

-- I faced trouble regarding authorized actions where I was proposed to enter a cd command and then a cmake command. Just adding sudo before the cmake command, running it and running again the whole sudo ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --install-space /opt/ros/indigo

-- I faced trouble with roscpp compilation since it ask a lot of swap. I get trough by modifying dphys-swapfile with cd /etc/ && sudo nano dphys-swapfile changing CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 into CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024 AND by adding -j2 option on my building command : sudo ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --install-space /opt/ros/indigo -j2 It's slower but works well.

I will let you know for further hints.