Installing ROS in centOS

Question

Hi all, Is there any way I can install ROS in centOS? I get this error even if I try to install minimum packages.

[ rosmake ] rosdep install failed: Could not detect OS, tried ['rosdep_test_os', 'debian', 'ubuntu', 'ubuntu', 'opensuse', 'fedora', 'rhel', 'arch', 'osx', 'osxbrew', 'gentoo', 'cygwin', 'freebsd']

I know ROS is not yet ready for centOS, but did anyone tried, any tricks to make it work?

Thanks in advance, dksr

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Originally posted by Krishna Dubba on ROS Answers with karma: 21 on 2012-04-02

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Answer 1

You might be able to use the ROS_OS_OVERRIDE environment variable and tell rosdep that you're running rhel. RHEL is not heavily used either so you may need to generate new rules for system dependencies for that as well.

There are some tutorials on updating rules on the rosdep wiki page

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Originally posted by tfoote with karma: 58457 on 2012-04-02

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by jrwilliams on 2014-02-27:
I'm trying to install ROS on CentOS as well. I've tried setting ROS_OS_OVERRIDE to rhel, but for many many packages I get a "No definition of [PACKAGENAME] for os [rhel]". I'm totally new to ROS and am required to use CentOS for this. Can you point me in the right direction to resolving this issue?

Comment by tfoote on 2014-02-27:
You will need to contribute rosdep rules for the package for CentOS http://docs.ros.org/independent/api/rosdep/html/contributing_rules.html has instructions on how to do so.