Question about building Turtlebot for Raspberry Pi 2

[Sanjaya Kumar]

Hi,

I’m trying to run Turtlebot on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the Indigo release.

Looking at the instructions on Turtlebot tutorial page section 2.2.2 “Workspaces” there is a procedure to build from source.

http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutorials/indigo/Turtlebot%20Installation

However, wouldn’t it be easier to follow the “standard” way of building packages as shown on this page?

http://wiki.ros.org/ROSberryPi/Installing%20ROS%20Indigo%20on%20Raspberry%20Pi

$ cd ~/ros_catkin_ws
$ rosinstall_generator rocom kobuki turtlebot --rosdistro indigo --deps --wet-only --exclude roslisp --tar > indigo-custom_ros.rosinstall

Next, update the workspace with wstool:

$ wstool merge -t src indigo-custom_ros.rosinstall
$ wstool update -t src

After updating the workspace, you may want to run rosdep to install any new dependencies that are required:

$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y -r --os=debian:wheezy

Finally, now that the workspace is up to date and dependencies are satisfied, rebuild the workspace:

$ sudo ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --install-space /opt/ros/indigo

Any gotchas trying to do it this way?

Thanks!

[Arif Rahman]

Hi Sanjaya,

So did you manage to get Turtlebot running on RPi? I'm going to do the same, hope you could share any tips.

Thanks.

Arif