Welcome

rosdep is a command-line tool for installing system dependencies. For *end-users*, rosdep helps you install system dependencies for software that you are building from source. For *developers*, rosdep simplifies the problem of installing system dependencies on different platforms. Instead of having to figure out which debian package on Ubuntu Oneiric contains Boost, you can just specify a dependency on 'boost'. rosdep is supported on a variety of platforms/package managers:

• Ubuntu (apt)
• Debian (apt)
• OS X (Homebrew)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rpm/experimental)
• Arch (pacman/experimental)
• Gentoo (equery/experimental)
• Slackware (sbotools/experimental)
• Cygwin (experimental)

Documentation

Overview Installing and using rosdep Command-line reference rosdep command usage Contributing rosdep rules How to submit new/updated rules for rosdep

Rosdep YAML format Specification of the rosdep.yaml file formats Developers Guide How to contribute new OS/package managers to rosdep Python API Unstable Python API for using rosdep as a library