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Hi there, Can anyone provide a tutorial to generate a .deb of a ROS package step by step so that the others can use it to install the package without source code.
Many thanks, Rickardo
If you want to build a ROS package into a deb, you can do it just like any debian package manually I highly recommend reading through the Debian documentation. There's a relatively steep learning curve unfortunately.
A few starting points are:
I don't know what your use case is, but if you're building ROS packages privately you can still use bloom to generate a lot of the boilerplate needed above. And you can use git-buildpackage to build the resultant debian packages locally in approximately one line.
A simpler approach that can fill many use cases is to use the checkinstall tool. You can use checkinstall with the install target for a catkin workspace.
The easiest way I have found to do this is by using CPack which is a CMake module.
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/mod...
In one of your CMakeLists.txt files you can add the following to generate a .deb
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME ${PACKAGE_NAME})
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY "${PACKAGE_NAME} debian package")
set(CPACK_GENERATOR "DEB")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT "${${PROJECT_NAME}_MAINTAINER}")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VENDOR "${${PROJECT_NAME}_MAINTAINER}")
set(CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX})
include(CPack)
Note that this will create a debian from your entire catkin workspace as all of the CMakeLists.txt files are merged into one when using catkin (although it might be possible to get round this using catkin_make_isolated).
Asked: 2016-08-13 04:18:32 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 15 '16
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Hey Rikardo, did you solve this?