Installation instruction to install ROS on Debian.

Motivation

Binary repos (containing ROS core and more)

Debian Stretch/Sid (amd64): deb http://sir.upc.edu/debian-robotics unstable main

Debian Jessie (amd64): deb http://sir.upc.edu/debian-robotics jessie-robotics main

Ubuntu Trusty: https://launchpad.net/~deb-rob/+archive/ubuntu/ros-trusty

Compile the rest of desktop-full

Installing the needed packages: 

   1 $apt-get install ros-full-desktop-depends

Compile the rest: 

   1 $ mkdir ~/ros
   2 $ cd ~/ros
   3 $ rosinstall_generator desktop_full --rosdistro indigo --deps --wet-only --tar --exclude RPP \
   4  ros ros_comm rosnode rosbuild roslang roswtf roslisp roscpp_core common_msgs \
   5  common_tutorials geometry_tutorials ros_tutorials visualization_tutorials \
   6  urdf_tutorial > indigo-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall
   7 $ wstool init -j8 src indigo-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall
   8 $ catkin_make_isolated --install

To use the local ros workspace: 

   1 source ~/ros/install_isolated/setup.bash