This snap contains the ROS 2 foxy desktop variant [1].
It provides the ROS 2 foxy stack to other snaps to that use it.
It shares the ROS 2 foxy libraries, components and executables
through the content interface.
This helps reduce the size of snaps and helps developers to easily snap ROS 2 foxy applications.
For users
This snap is automatically installed and removed when needed.
Manually adding or removing this snap is not recommended and might break things.
If you are having issues with snaps using ROS, please contact the experts on the Snapcraft forum [2].
For developers
The ros extensions are the recommended way to use this in your own snap [3].
Find out how to do so in the documentation [4].
You can report issues with this content snap on GitHub [5] where the source code is available [6]. \
[1] https://ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html
[2] https://forum.snapcraft.io/
[3] https://snapcraft.io/docs/supported-extensions
[4] https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs/ros-deployment-with-snaps-part-4
[5] https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps/issues
[6] https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install ros-foxy-desktop-dev, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install ros-foxy-desktop-dev
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