[Hamara-devel] robotics software coming in Debian-science blend.

[Raju Dv]

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On Wednesday 27 May 2015 09:16 PM, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just had a nice little conversation with some of the actors in the 
> debian-science blend. There is going to be a sub-team looking at 
> robotics software in the debian-science blend now.
>
> Couple of packages that could be uploaded any day now :-
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/ros
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/orocos/
>
> http://www.ros.org/
> http://www.orocos.org/
>
> The only hitch might be the ftp-master but then I guess I have shared 
> that before but even that turns out to be an issue the packaging is 
> there for us to use/re-use how we see fit.
>
> The people are enthusiastic and have asked me if there is any specific 
> software that I would like them to package.
>
> @Raju - any ideas or softwares that you think will be good for us, 
> lemme know will pass it on them so we don't need to do much work for 
> packaging.
As far as my experience is concerned, the following packages are useful 
for people in Robotics

Package: arduino
State: not installed
Version: 1:1.0.5+dfsg2-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/electronics
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 1,727 k
Depends: default-jre | java6-runtime, libjna-java, librxtx-java (>= 
2.2pre2-3), arduino-core (= 1:1.0.5+dfsg2-2)
Recommends: extra-xdg-menus, policykit-1
Description: AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries

Homepage: http://www.arduino.cc




Package: fritzing
State: not installed
Version: 0.8.5b+dfsg-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/electronics
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 8,691 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-network (>= 
4:4.5.3), libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3),
          libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 
(>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4),
          fritzing-data (= 0.8.5b+dfsg-1), libqt4-dbus, libqt4-help, 
libqt4-opengl, libqt4-webkit, libqt4-xmlpatterns,
          libqt4-sql-sqlite
Conflicts: fritzing
Description: Easy-to-use electronic design software

Homepage: http://fritzing.org

Will let you know If I come to know of any other software’s regarding this.


>
> The offer is not only to Raju but all, anybody who knows of a copyleft 
> robotics software and think it will be a good fit for educational 
> purposes let me know and I'll pass on the message.
>
> There were other interesting conversations as well and I'll appraise 
> of them once we have an .iso we can build upon.
>
> Look forward to feedback.