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During the installation you will need to fix the PKGBUILD of these dependency packages:

ros-melodic-tf - boost_signals fix
ros-melodic-rviz - boost_signals fix
ros-melodic-image-view - boost_signals fix
ros-melodic-qt-gui-cpp - "-l-lpthread" fix
ros-melodic-laser_assembler - boost_signals fix
ros-melodic-laser-filters - boost_signals fix

ros-melodic-tf - line 59 - PKGBUILD

        cd geometry-release-release-melodic-tf-1.12.0-0/
        rm -rf CMakeLists.txt
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/geometry/melodic-devel/tf/CMakeLists.txt

ros-melodic-rviz - line 100 - PKGBUILD:

        sed -i -e 's/signals//g' rviz-release-release-melodic-rviz-1.13.1-0/CMakeLists.txt

ros-melodic-qt-gui-cpp - Run the package install for the first time, restart the compilation, add this line before cmake on PKGBUILD:

sed -i -e 's/\-l\-lpthread//g' sip/qt_gui_cpp_sip/Makefile

ros-melodic-image-view - line 60 - PKGBUILD

sed -i -e 's/signals//g' image_pipeline-release-release-melodic-image_view-1.12.23-0/CMakeLists.txt

ros-melodic-laser-assembler - line 56 - PKGBUILD:

sed -i -e 's/signals//g' laser_assembler-release-release-melodic-laser_assembler-1.7.6-0/CMakeLists.txt

ros-melodic-laser-filter - line 56 - PKGBUILD:

    sed -i -e 's/signals//g' laser_filters-release-release-melodic-laser_filters-1.8.6-0/CMakeLists.txt

@bionade24 That didn't work as well, but I used sudo pacman -Rsc $(pacman -Qs ros- | awk ' NR % 2 == 1 { print substr($1, 7) } ') and it seems it cleared things up.

@masmee: Then do sudo pacman -Rsc ros-melodic-*

@bionade24 I cannot do that, getting the error: target not found: ros-melodic-desktop-full since this package itself is not installed, just some of its dependencies.

@ilinojkovic: sudo pacman -Rsc ros-melodic-desktop-full

Hi all. I'm a newbie to arch, and seems already in deep water with ros :) So I had troubles installing this package on my Manjaro machine. I tried several approaches, from the official one to the one provided by @kwarzi in git repo. All of the approaches had some errors, so I ended up using docker.

The question that I have now is - how to easily remove/purge all the ros dependencies that are downloaded and/or installed on my local machine?

Quite a few of the packages did install but a lot is still left uninstalled. It would be quite a pain going through all one by one.

For people having trouble installing ros-melodic, I've created a set of scripts to help test, debug, fix and install ros-melodic packages on archlinux. Check out this github repo.