Debian packages for Orocos Toolchain 2.6 can be fetched using apt-get
from the ros debian package repository: apt-get install
ros-fuerte-orocos-toolchain ros-fuerte-rtt-ros-integration
ros-fuerte-rtt-ros-comm ros-fuerte-rtt-common-msgs

You'll still have to build rtt_geometry and soem from source though
but it will take most of the compilation time away.

Ruben
Ruben Smits, Phd
Chief Technology Officer
Intermodalics BVBA
+32479511786
www.intermodalics.eu

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Uwe Fechner <u [dot] fechner [..] ...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the installation instructions on:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/orocos_toolchain_ros
> section "Manual installation" do not work for Orocos 2.6.
>
> I updated my own installation instructions:
> http://www.kieltech.de/uweswiki/ROS
>
> but this is ridiculously complicated.
>
> Is there a way to simplify the installation?
>
> All we want is Orocos + Ethercat, and installing it takes
> hundreds of megabytes and hours of compilation.
>
> Regards:
>
> Uwe Fechner
> --
> Orocos-Users mailing list
> Orocos-Users [..] ...
> http://lists.mech.kuleuven.be/mailman/listinfo/orocos-users

First of all, thanks for sharing.

Second, a nice "solution" is to do everything you just did only once and to
create an installation disk of that "recently baked" linux with thge tool
Remastersys.
using that tool you get a copy of an entire Linux system with all the
software installed on it, with exception of your personal data.

Such ISO will be ready to use for everybody in the community :)

Of course a version with XENOMAI can be created too. This will save also a
lot of hours to people.
I am playing around with it and I will probably share the image but don't
keep you breath ;)

Davide

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Uwe Fechner <u [dot] fechner [..] ...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the installation instructions on:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/orocos_toolchain_ros
> section "Manual installation" do not work for Orocos 2.6.
>
> I updated my own installation instructions:
> http://www.kieltech.de/uweswiki/ROS
>
> but this is ridiculously complicated.
>
> Is there a way to simplify the installation?
>
> All we want is Orocos + Ethercat, and installing it takes
> hundreds of megabytes and hours of compilation.
>
> Regards:
>
> Uwe Fechner
> --
> Orocos-Users mailing list
> Orocos-Users [..] ...
> http://lists.mech.kuleuven.be/mailman/listinfo/orocos-users
>