Install ROS Indigo on Edison Ubilinux

This tutorial shows you how to install ROS Indigo on Edison Ubilinux from source.

You can mainly follow these instructions Installing ROS Indigo on Intel Edison, Installing ROS Indigo on Raspberry Pi except the following differences:

compile and install boost 1.5.3

Follow this instruction Getting Started on Unix Variants to install boost 1.5.3 because the default boost 1.4.9 on wheezy does not works with ROS Indigo.

Without installing boost 1.5.3, you may get the error message like this:

error: macro "BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1

1.2 console_bridge

In :

sudo checkinstall make install

Enter 2 and rename the package to 'libconsole_bridge' .

3.2.2 Resolving Dependencies with rosdep

Run rosdep install without the -y argument and skip apt-get install libboost-all-dev lib.

error while loading shared libraries: libconsole_bridge.so.0.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After the whole install, if you got this error while starting roscore, you can fix it like this:

cd /opt/ros/indigo/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libconsole_bridge.so.0.3 libconsole_bridge.so.0.3