Installing ROS Fuerte on Fedora 17 (Failed!)

I just installed a new Fedora 17 system to get familiar with it. Now I am trying to install the brand new ROS Fuerte on this Fedora system following the instructions here.

Everything went fine until the make & install step

make -j8
sudo make install

First, it is better to be cautious and just type

make

without the

-j8

part. Parallel compilation can get you into trouble some times! Second, with the

sudo make install

step, I got an error complaining about the directory ~/ros-underlay/catkin/bin/em is not found. Seems like this directory have to be present as if in a Debian system. So, mkdir ~/ros-underlay/catkin/bin/em solved this problem (apparently!).

Following the instructions with the Desktop-Full install, I got another error at the step

rosdep install -a

ERROR: Rosdep experienced an internal error.
Please go to the rosdep page [1] and file a bug report with the message below.
[1] : http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep

Bad installer [yum]: global name 'pkgs' is not defined


Actually, it seems like there is a ticket filed already for this bug here. Following the bug assignee instructions, I downloaded the latest rosdep from github, and then extracted the archive ans installed it using

sudo python setup.py install

The error disappeared. But now I have other errors!

Executing script below with cwd=/tmp
{{{
#!/bin/bash
export PREFIX=/usr/
if [ -f $PREFIX/include/assimp/assimp-version.installed ]; then
  [ 2ed0b9954bcb2572c0dade8f849b9260 = `cat $PREFIX/include/assimp/assimp-version.installed` ]
else
  false
fi

}}}

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
rxtools: No definition of [swig-wx] for OS [fedora]
python_qt_binding: No definition of [python-qt-bindings] for OS [fedora]
image_proc: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
image_view: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
cv_bridge: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
image_rotate: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
opencv2: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
image_geometry: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
cv_markers: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
stereo_image_proc: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
opencv_tests: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
depth_image_proc: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
camera_calibration: No definition of [opencv2] for OS [fedora]
pcl_ros: No definition of [pcl] for OS [fedora]


I tried installing the assimp-devel package. But this did not solve the problem. I also installed the opencv-devel and the pcl-devel packages.

At this point, I decided to abandon it altogether, since I need to make a custom YAML config file! Since Fedora was a fresh install anyway, and since ROS only supported Ubuntu officially, I decided to give it a try on Ubuntu 12.04.