Hello everyone,

I am struggeling to install ROS Jade on multiple SUSE Linux Enterprise Server nodes. I have achieved to install ROS manually on one node by following the "Build from source" wiki entry and it seems to work. Some dependencies were not available in the SUSE Package Manager, I have either compiled those from source or found a package on another public repository.

Question1: The actual question is how can I deploy ROS on multiple SLES nodes (that are not connected to the internet) without compiling it every time from scratch?

My approach:

1. Download all ROS dependencies (got those via "rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro jade -y" )
2. Compile and Package dependencies that are not in the SUSE repository by hand.
3. Package ROS as RPM and transfer it together with all the dependencies to the node.
4. Install rpm packages

Question2: How do I actually create a RPM .spec file for ROS? What kind of directories should be included? What do I need to take care of?

Question3: If I understood correctly, the command "rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro jade -y" lists all build dependencies. Are those the same as the runtime dependencies? Means that I definetly should install all those dependencies on every node that runs ROS?

Every help is very much appreciated. Thank you.

bloom-generate rosrpm --os-name=fedora --os-version=26 --ros-distro=lunar