ROS on win32 laptop VM - is it possible?
Hi, I have a win32 3G-RAM laptop.
I installed VM for the sake of ROS.
- Tried ubuntu 16.04, failed to install ROS on it. (unmet dependencies)
- Tried ubuntu 14.04, it is impossibly slow.
- Tried ubuntu 13.10, again, unmet dependencies that are not going to be installed.
I am new to ROS. Is it possible to run ROS on a not-so-strong laptop?
What is the best configuration?
Thanks Tova
Edit: I am not worried about performance because this is for just a short project.
http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation vs #q188732 answer #1 : The difference is with the step:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
Is this step needed?
Step:
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full
Gives me a lot of "unmet dependencies that are not going to be installed." , on all my tries with different configurations.
Are these dependencies supposed to get met automatically?
I have a feeling that the dependencies failure has nothing to do with the performance of the machine. (Am I right?)
Thanks Tova
Which ROS distribution were you trying to install? I'm asking because different ROS distros are supported on different Ubuntu distros ( http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation )
On ubuntu 16.04 I tried kinetic. On 13.10 I tried both kinetic and indigo.
Kinetic is only supported on 16.04 at the moment, so that would seem to be impossible?