Issues installing ROS on Ubuntu and Mint
There seems to be a fundamental constraint when attempting to install ROS Groovy. The install depends on Boost >= 1.49 and there does not appear to be a .deb available for any version of Boost > 1.48 in any of the repositories. Downloading, building, and installing Boost separately does no good because the apt-get DB will not resolve the dependency and ros-groovy-rospack will not install at all. Of course, this pretty much removes any option other than attempting to do a generic source installation and that will also eventually fail for exactly the same reason when running rosdep. I have tried to install ROS on both Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 LTS as well as Mint 13 with no success, although I did get quite a bit further on Mint with the generic source install. Bottom line: if any system depends on the apt-get DB in order to install and those packages are not available in the normal repositories, then it is a very short trip. ROS may benefit from using the standard platform-independent configure scripts that have worked just fine now for decades.
Asked by jspahn on 2013-02-06 05:19:01 UTC
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apt-get install should work fine for ROS on ubuntu. If you want some help, please start posting the exact errors you get and your sources.list entries.
Asked by dornhege on 2013-02-06 06:05:27 UTC
I do not need help. The dependencies are what they are and whether or not it should work is not important. It does not work. The dependency on Boost >= 1.49 simply cannot be circumvented unless you know of a apt-get repository that distributes it.
Asked by jspahn on 2013-02-07 04:15:10 UTC
If you don't need help, you are at the wrong place. This is for getting help. With "should work" I meant that it is supposed to work, I just can't verify it as I'm on Oneiric. apt-get for Precise + groovy does work in principle.
Asked by dornhege on 2013-02-07 05:03:54 UTC
@jspahn Please be polite and follow the support guidelines. http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support FYI: Ubuntu Precise 12.04 is our default development platform and ROS does not require boost 1.49. In future questions please provide enough information to reproduce your problems.
Asked by tfoote on 2013-04-11 14:47:43 UTC