RPI4 libboost 1.67 error - run custom ROS nodes

[acxz]

@jaelpark I believe I was wrong, while you don’t have to use buster on rpi4 and can flash any distro you want on it, it seems that Buster is the recommend OS. Operating system images – Raspberry Pi

As for the ROS version to use with Buster, ROS supports Buster with ROS Noetic. See: REP 3 -- Target Platforms (ROS.org)

[guido_sanchez]

Hi!

I am also having libboost errors while trying to run custom ROS nodes on Debian Buster. After removing ROS kinetic packages

apt remove --purge ros-kinetic-*
apt autoremove --purge

I was able to compile the ros_base variant of ROS Noetic on Debian Buster by running

export SSL_CERT_FILE=/usr/lib/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
export ROS_PYTHON_VERSION=3

and then following the instructions on

http://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Source

I tried to install ROS Noetic using Ubuntu Focal repositories, but that didn’t go very well. @acxz how did you manage to install ros-noetic-ros-base as mentioned in PR #6 of the pi-gen-navio repository?

I think that supporting Ubuntu 20.04 (18.04) would be a better fit to run ROS Noetic (Melodic) without Ardupilot stack. In that way, you could have all the precompiled binaries for ROS and things would be a lot easier. You can check out (and support) this forum post regarding that topic

Navio2 support for Ubuntu 20.04

It would be great if you could add support for current Ubuntu LTS for arm64, enabling to use Ubuntu+Navio2 with Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. This would be an awesome feature if you want to use ROS without Ardupilot, such as my case, or even better to move forward to the new ROS2 middleware, fully supported by Canonical in their Raspberry releases. Since ROS/ROS2 binaries are available for the arm64 architecture, not to mention all the dependency libraries, it would make a lot easier to integrate ROS/R…

[acxz]

@guido_sanchez

how did you manage to install ros-noetic-ros-base as mentioned in PR #6 of the pi-gen-navio repository?

Hello @guido_sanchez, that codebase is to create a Navio image with ros-noetic preinstalled. If you follow that repo’s instructions, instead of trying to remove kinetic and then install noetic from an existing image, it should work.