ROS on an Intel Aero/Yocto

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Greetings,

I am trying to get a ROS install on an Intel Aero Compute board that is distributed with a yocto platform. I’ve tried two different approaches. One approach is the cross-compilation method mentioned here:
http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/OpenEmbedded

However, after setting up the environment an attempting to bitbake roslaunch I get an error that says:
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'python-pyyaml' (but /home/xyz/devel/meta-ros/recipes-ros/ros-comm/roslaunch_1.11.21.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)

I’ve done a bit of searching, but I haven’t been able to determine a reasonable solution.

The second method I’ve attempted is a source installation:
http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Source#melodic.2BAC8-Installation.2BAC8-Source.Installation

Since the compute board has a dev envorment this seemed reasonable.
Unfortunately, rosdep update cannot determine the OS. I’m not sure which OS would be the most suitable.

Anyway, any solution on continuing down either path would be appreciated.

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Dear @jgauthier,

you have posted a question on ROS Discourse, that is for news and general discussion about ROS.
Kind of like the “ros-users” of discourse.ros.org.

As you have a question: Please search for yout topic on ROS answer and if nobody has posted your question yet, only then post a new question on http://answers.ros.org following these support guidelines.

Discourse is not the right place.

– Thilo

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Thank you- I discovered that tidbit after posting but could not remove the item!

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