ROS Noetic Install on NVIDIA Jetson Nano (Ubuntu 18.04)

setup_noetic.md

ROS Noetic Install on jetson nano (Ubuntu 18.04)

This guide is derived from the official Noetic setup page, which can be found here: http://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Source

This version includes some customizations for missing packages on Ubuntu 18.04 which the jetson nano OS uses. I think this installation should work on most ubuntu 18.04 installations, but I can give no guarantees.

System and python dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo -H python3 -m pip install -U pip
sudo -H python3 -m pip install -U setuptools
sudo -H python3 -m pip install -U rosdep rosinstall_generator vcstool


sudo rosdep init
rosdep update

mkdir ~/ros_catkin_ws
cd ~/ros_catkin_ws

Generate rosinstall file

Note: the default says desktop here, but i don't want all the GUI stuff, so i use the robot and perception packages instead

rosinstall_generator robot perception --rosdistro noetic --deps --tar > noetic-robot-perception.rosinstall
mkdir ./src
vcs import --input noetic-robot-perception.rosinstall ./src

Install ros packages

rosdep install --from-paths ./src --ignore-packages-from-source --rosdistro noetic -y -r

# not sure if this is necessary:
sudo -H python3 -m pip install -U catkin_pkg

# again not sure if necessary:  
sudo apt install liborocos-kdl-dev

for compilation error about cv_bridge not finding boost:

nano ./src/vision_opencv/cv_bridge/CmakeLists.txt

# change: 
find_package(Boost REQUIRED python37)
# to:
find_package(Boost REQUIRED python3)

Build ros packages

sudo ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 --install-space /opt/ros/noetic

(optional) add setup.bash to bashrc so it's automatically loaded on the start of a terminal session

echo "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

Even after setting up keys I got these installation errors originally mentioned.

Did you run this command from my comment? This is exactly what you see when you haven't run the command. The errors I mention later are associated with fixing apt if you run the rosdep install without first adding the key and ppa repository, which it looks like you might have done.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Yes, I ran the command sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list' and setup the key, but I'm still getting same errors.

Yes, I ran the command sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list' and setup the key, but I'm still getting same errors.

You may need to run apt update then try rosdep install again - if that doesn't work I'm not sure what's wrong and it may be a different issue:(

Ah yes, thanks that worked!