I wanted to install ROS kinetic on by beaglebone black. The image I have installed is a debian jessie, which is the recommended image to handle all of the beaglebone black features. And I just saw that currently almost nothing is compiled for kinetic jessie armhf, while all packages are available for the kinetic ubuntu xenial armhf. I used to have the ubuntu xenial on my beaglebone and ros was nicely working, unfortunately to have the easiest access to internal feature of the beaglebones (PRUs), the debian jessie is the image best maintained, so I switched to this image. but now I am kind of stuck as almost no package are available for this version.
is this a temporary limitation, and I just need to wait that packages are compiled and provided for my combination, or is this kind of a mid-long term limitation and I should look into another solution for my setup ?
Originally posted by Bobox on ROS Answers with karma: 25 on 2016-07-13
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Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-07-14:
Could you give some examples of packages you are missing? Base Debian Jessie (amd64) builds include about 700 pkgs for kinetic. For (I guess) ARMv8, it's also around 700.
Comment by Bobox on 2016-07-14:
All of the ros-kinetic- packages are missing.
I can see some python-ros.. , rosbash
On servers :
http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages is 51Ko
http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-arm64/Packages is 687Ko
and xenial amhf is 609ko
Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-07-14:
That's certainly strange. Perhaps @tfoote can shed some light on this. I'm not an ARM expert, so I might be misinterpreting the status pages.
