kinetic?

[hauptmech]

Anyone have time to start on this?

[pryre]

Managed to install it painlessly last night, @zootboy, no issues so far. Going to give it a run with my simulator setup later this afternoon.

It seems like you have all the packages in there for "ros-kinetic-robot", is this all you are personally planning on adding it (just for a record)?

Also, I think I might try to do some updates to the wiki.ros.org. Might be able to attract a few more people along, even if the process is still quite rudimentary. Could anyone offer some thoughts?

[zootboy]

I did some updates to the archwiki ROS entry, nothing on the actual ROS wiki. If someone wants to do that, by all means.

I've personally been uploading packages to the AUR as I use / test / need them. If you have any requests, send them my way (aur AT seangreenslade DOT com). I can't promise I'll be able to properly test packages I don't personally use, but I will maintain them on the AUR.

[artcg]

Thanks for uploading those @zootboy

Is rqt and rviz for kinetic included in the AUR? (I can see they are there for e.g. Indigo, Jade, are they forward compatible?)

[zootboy]

They're on my to-do list. I'm away from home at the moment, so it probably won't happen for a week or two.

[zootboy]

@artcg I just uploaded rviz & rqt to the AUR. Comment on the AUR packages if you find any problems.

[artcg]

Neat, thanks! I'll check them out later on

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[ZJaume]

Is ROS-Kinetic usable in Arch? I need a ros version with the turtlebot packages and Indigo fails compiling

[artcg]

It is useable but from my experience a lot less painful to just dual-boot whichever is the officially recommended version of Ubuntu- I found that compatibility was awkward and sometimes hacky otherwise

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[tmmsartor]

@ZJaume also a lxc container with the proper version of ubuntu is a good solution in my experience.

[romainreignier]

As @artcg I have ended up using a dual-boot as well, it is a lot simpler.

[RashikShahjahan]

Is installing ros-kinetic on arch possible at the moment?

[zootboy]

In theory, yes. In practice, you may need to do some patching to get some of the packages to compile.

[RashikShahjahan]

@zootboy I got this error while building catkin:

make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
<== Failed to process package 'opencv3': 
  Command '['/opt/ros/kinetic/env.sh', 'make', '-j4', '-l4']' returned non-zero exit status 2

Reproduce this error by running:
==> cd /home/rashik/ros/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/opencv3 && /opt/ros/kinetic/env.sh make -j4 -l4

Any idea why?

[zootboy]

Have you tried using the native Arch opencv package with my stub installer?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ros-kinetic-opencv3-native/

No idea if it still works, but worth a try.

[RashikShahjahan]

@zootboy Thanks! I'll give it a shot. I used this guide, btw : https://gist.github.com/lcpz/0ab75aa5205504ced9f5c11cac10a89e

[RashikShahjahan]

In file included from /home/rashik/ros/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/opencv3/install/modules/ovis/opencv_ovis_pch_dephelp.cxx:1:
/home/rashik/ros/ros_catkin_ws/src/opencv3/opencv_contrib/ovis/src/precomp.hpp:13:10: fatal error: Ogre.h: No such file or directory
 #include <Ogre.h>
          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [modules/ovis/CMakeFiles/opencv_ovis_pch_dephelp.dir/build.make:63: modules/ovis/CMakeFiles/opencv_ovis_pch_dephelp.dir/opencv_ovis_pch_dephelp.cxx.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:6483: modules/ovis/CMakeFiles/opencv_ovis_pch_dephelp.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 15%] Linking CXX static library ../../lib/libopencv_bgsegm_pch_dephelp.a
[ 15%] Built target opencv_bgsegm_pch_dephelp
[ 15%] Linking CXX static library ../../lib/libopencv_aruco_pch_dephelp.a
[ 15%] Built target opencv_aruco_pch_dephelp
[ 15%] Linking CXX static library ../../lib/libopencv_ximgproc_pch_dephelp.a
[ 15%] Built target opencv_ximgproc_pch_dephelp
make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
<== Failed to process package 'opencv3': 
  Command '['/opt/ros/kinetic/env.sh', 'make', '-j4', '-l4']' returned non-zero exit status 2

Reproduce this error by running:
==> cd /home/rashik/ros/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/opencv3 && /opt/ros/kinetic/env.sh make -j4 -l4

Command failed, exiting.

This is what I got after I tried building after installing that.

[zootboy]

Is Ogre installed? The error message pretty clearly points out what the issue is: Ogre.h can't be found.

[RashikShahjahan]

@zootboy I have installed ogre seperately. Still getting the same error.

[RashikShahjahan]

@zootboy I have installed ogre seperately. Still getting the same error.

[zootboy]

I have a vague recollection of the latest ogre not working with kinetic. You may need to use the ogre-1.8 or ogre-1.9 AUR packages.

[hauptmech]

@RashikShahjahan you can show the include paths to understand where the compiler is actually looking. It's not uncommon for projects to "improve" their directory structure and change include file locations or include paths.

ROS follows slower moving distros (ubuntu/debian) so getting it to work on Arch often involves this type of problem.

I run ROS in an Ubuntu nspawn container under Arch these days rather than waste my time trying to drag them into the future. Getting the container to use the GPU has it's own (solvable) issues, but most of my stuff is headless.

[RashikShahjahan]

@zootboy Thanks! Installing 1.9 solved the openCV problem.

[RashikShahjahan]

Now it's failing for 'python_orocos_kdl'.

[RashikShahjahan]

@hauptmech Do you know of any tutorials which can help me run an nspawn container?

[hauptmech]

It's worth taking some time to learn about linux namespaces first.

The Arch wiki always has good info. This article has nice info on setting up X11 across the container. (But the network setup he uses is probably not what you want) Be careful about how you handle networking when working with different distributions. Many of the tutorials out there assume you are running an Arch container with Arch, and use the same network setup for both the host and the container. When running an Ubuntu container on Arch, stop and think about which network helper tools (netctl, netmanager, systemd_network) are being used on each side.

As mentioned before, running 3D applications takes some work. If you have an nvidia card you can start here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container.

[RashikShahjahan]

@hauptmech any idea about what's going on here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51713879/error-creating-ubuntu-16-container-under-arch

[RashikShahjahan]

Can someone help me with this.

[parkerlreed]

@zootboy Are there any plans of getting the kinectic packages working again on the AUR? A ton of them fail integrity and when skipping that, have to have changed folder names to work. PLus there's a couple that just fail building all together.

[zootboy]

I'm sorry, but I no longer do work involving ROS, so I don't have the time to maintain the AUR packages. I orphaned them all a while back, so anyone else who is interested can feel free to take it on.

[parkerlreed]

@zootboy Thanks. Yeah I saw that. Tried cleaning them up on my end but ran into a few issues. I may take a stab later.

[bionade24]

The latest release melodic is now working and on Github: https://github.com/ros-melodic-arch

[acxz]

The latest release noetic is now working and on Github: https://github.com/ros-noetic-arch

non-ros-package ros scripts/tools are being held at https://github.com/ros-arch

Next big step is to get ros-rolling (rolling release of ROS2) packaged over at https://github.com/ros-rolling-arch