Robot Operating System 2.0: Ardent Apalone Release

Re:Robot Operating System 2.0: Ardent Apalone Release by Animats on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:48PM (#15893136)

Good to see that coming out the door. It's still in beta, though.

They need to get their act together and get this into the standard Ubuntu repositories for installation using the standard GUI tools. Or install into non-system folders. ROS is notorious for breaking Ubuntu auto-updating because of bad packaging.

I tried following their instructions, and the install didn't happen because, for some reason, their repository wasn't recognized. Don't have time to fix this; will wait until they're out of beta.

ROS has historically been such an install pain that some people install it in a Docker container. That has its own headaches.

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Re:Robot Operating System 2.0: Ardent Apalone Release by cbHXBY1D on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:30PM (#15902801)

I haven't used ROS in two years but it was such a painful experience at the time. We were stuck on an old, old build because we found that some of the drivers we used didn't work on anything newer. I spent so much time trying different Ubuntu versions paired with different ROS versions.

And this was with pretty popular consumer hardware. I can't imagine the experience with anything exotic.

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