There are some packages for ROS Groovy in the AUR, but: * Some are missing, some are not building anymore * The current release is Hydro now

They are currently maintained by zootboy, and the “basic stuff” can be found on github: https://github.com/zootboy/arch-ros-stacks

Theses packages are good for a basic ROS installation, and can then be completed by catkin. But I wanted to try a little bit more…

There's currently not support for Hydro in Arch, so … Let's build some packages !

I've found this repository: https://github.com/progtologist/ros-hydro-arch but it's the about the tools, not the actual ROS packages so…

I have set-up a small svn repository so one can check-out my progress and build the packages

http://svn.redox.ws/svn/arch-ros-hydro/

To checkout: svn co http://svn.redox.ws/svn/arch-ros-hydro

Then, read the Readme file and get to work !

Edit the PKGBUILD:

• Remove the python2-argparse dependency, it's in python2 core I think
• Remove the first CMAKE option ( -DCMAKE_BUILD_BINARY….=ON ), so it keeps the ROS scripts like 'env.sh' or 'setup.bash'

ocl
rviz
openni_camera
pano_core
pano_py
pano_ros
turtlebot_panorama
map_store
turtlebot_core_apps
turtlebot_apps
kobuki_qtestsuite
kobuki_gazebo_plugins
kobuki_gazebo
kobuki_desktop

• rviz because of OGRE1.9
• openni_camera I wasn't sure about the dependency and, haven't built it yet so…
• pano looks like it doesn't like my opencv (missing link option maybe)
• map_store needs a fix to link with mongodb
• kobuki_qtestsuite yields an ugly /bin/sh: pyuic4: command not found
• kobukigazeboplugins yields an ugly error: ‘shared_dynamic_cast’ is not a member of ‘boost’
• The other gazebo are related to the previous one