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

[shirish]

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On 06/01/2015 06:21 PM, Raju Dv wrote:
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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.
>
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Those are also available under Debian :-

[$] aptitude search arduino fritzing 

i   arduino     - AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries 

i A arduino-core - Code, examples, and libraries for the Arduino 
platform
p   arduino-mighty-1284p   - Platform files for Arduino to run on 
ATmega1284P
p   arduino-mk   - Program your Arduino from the command line 

p   fritzing    - Easy-to-use electronic design software 

p   fritzing-data - Easy-to-use electronic design software (data files) 


There are few more coming in pipeline from few conversations I have had.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org