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Installing ROS Kinetic on Mac OS X - El Capitan

Having rather painlessly installed ROS Indigo on El Capitan using Mike Purvis's script, I attempted to upgrade to ROS Kinetic. This gist outlines the problems I encoutered and how I solved them. Hopefully this guide will help others attempting to install ROS Kinetic / Gazebo 7 on El Capitan.

ROS Install OSX

Start with Mike Purvis's script, which currently is setup to install ROS Indigo. In order to install Kinetic instead of Indigo, make sure to set the ROS_DISTRO environment variable: export ROS_DISTRO=kinetic.

After you get through rosdep errors, it's quickest to just work with the catkin config ... and catkin build ... commands directly. In fact, I found it most helpful to leave my catkin workspace terminal open at ros-install-osx/kinetic_desktop_full_ws and then opening a new terminal to go tr

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#!/bin/sh 

SUMMARY="koreader-nightly-`date +%Y%m%d`"
PROJECT="koreader-package"
USER="******@gmail.com"
PASSWORD="************"

echo "clone koreader to dev directory"
cd ~/dev
rm -rf koreader

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#!/bin/sh 

SUMMARY="kindlepdfviewer-touch-nightly-`date +%Y%m%d`"
PROJECT="kindlepdfviewer-touch-package"
USER="**********@gmail.com"
PASSWORD="**************"

echo "clone kindlepdfviewer to dev directory"
cd ~/dev
rm -rf kindlepdfviewer-touch

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#!/usr/bin/python 
import os
import time
import subprocess
from github import Github

GITHUB_USER_TOKEN = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
GITHUB_REPO = "xxxx"

GOOGLE_CODE_USER = "xxxxxxxx@gmail.com"

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package com.github.chrox.kpvbooklet;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Date;

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;

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package com.mobileread.chrox.patch.kpw.kpvlauncher;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.security.AllPermission;
import java.security.Permission;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.net.URI;

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#!/usr/bin/python 
import os
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime,timedelta
import subprocess
from github import Github 

PROXY = "http://192.168.1.101:7071"
USER_TOKEN = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"