Custom ROS, Install Package?

asked 2017-10-19 18:26:08 -0500

ethandaniels
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http://wiki.ros.org/ROSberryPi/Instal...

After following through with this tutorial I have been able to setup ROS indigo without issue on a Raspberry Pi. Though was wondering how I would install packages from GitHub, or custom packages? I am asking this because the package install process is so strange with this custom distro.

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Can you clarify what is "so strange with this custom distro"?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-10-20 01:42:32 -0500 )edit

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I meant strange by this command. Im new to ROS and all other documentation shows a more straightforward approach using rosinstall

rosinstall_generator #package-name# --rosdistro indigo --deps --wet-only --exclude roslisp --tar > indigo-custom_ros.rosinstall

ethandaniels ( 2017-10-20 08:30:56 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-10-20 05:51:41 -0500

l4ncelot

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As the tutorial suggests you can build another packages with rosinstall_generator ros_comm ANOTHER_PACKAGES --rosdistro indigo --deps --wet-only --exclude roslisp --tar > indigo-custom_ros.rosinstall.

Building your own packages should be easy after this with regular catkin.

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I apologize for my naivety, I am new to ROS. So if I have my own custom package that I create through a catkin workspace I shouldn't have any issues building?

I would just have to run the run rosdep install to get all dependencies then rebuild the workspace?

ethandaniels ( 2017-10-20 08:29:42 -0500 )edit

Exactly. Or at least this worked for me.

l4ncelot ( 2017-10-20 08:41:07 -0500 )edit

Ofc if you don't use GUI on your raspberry you won't be able to build some packages because of their requirements. But other packages should be fine.

l4ncelot ( 2017-10-20 08:43:05 -0500 )edit

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