Any success with MoveIt! with ROS-kinetic in Ubuntu-16.04?
Hi there,
I am new in ROS, and I decided to use ROS-Kinetic in Ubuntu-16.04 for a longer-term benefit, as they are the newest LTS combination. Unsurprisingly, not all packages/dependencies are prepared for it. I have been stuck in installing Moveit! for quite a while.
Although the MoveIt! official website hasn't supported ROS-Kinetic in Ubuntu 16.04 yet, but I was think is it possible to compile the source code with some modifications in source code, assuming the differences between ROS distributions are not huge.
I wonder if someone has installed MoveIt! in this environment successfully, or has any suggestions to modify source code in order to make it compatible my environment? If yes, please kindly share them. Thank you very much!
After many days of trying compiling from source file, installing dependencies, and resolving conflicts manually, I finally gave it up. There are too many problems coming after another. So I guess the best choice now is to use the earlier stable versions. Hope the support could come up soon.
I don't know how you've been approaching it (have you been using the right tools?
rosdepand friends, etc?), but looking at Dave Coleman's docker images for MoveIt it would seem Kinetic is definitively a usable platform.Perhaps you can use the Dockerfile for his Kinetic builds (from source) as inspiration?
Hm, ok. Seems I was a little too optimistic: those
Dockerfiles don't actually build anything.Apparently you're not the only one attempting this, and it's tracked at ros-planning/moveit_ros#695.
I have tried to resolve dependencies that rosdep didn't manage(at least by then), but there are too many of them. Being new in ROS, I guess it'll be a better way to learn with earlier stable versions than trying so hard to resolve fruitlessly. The later way was too frustrating.
do we have an update on this guys? when is a stable version of Moveit compatible with ROS Kinetic going to be released?
MoveIt can be succesfully build from sources on Kinetic for quite some time now, see the instructions. Building takes some time, but is certainly doable (6 commands).
The binary release is also almost finished, but has not been made available yet.