What is the purpose of easy binary install, if we cannot even try the tutorials with it?

[Pugens]

Description

Following a ros jazzy full desktop install and ros-jazzy-moveit install with apt-get, I cannot do any of the official introductory tutorials for moveit2. I am not an expert of ubuntu dist packages and source install and the like, so sorry from my part if I am failing to see the ovious here. But, should it not be a little bit simpler? Like, can there be at least 1 example in the tutorials repo explaining how to use the easy and quick binary install of movit2 with a simple ros2 package? My laptop is still ok, with i7, 16GB and RTX, and yet I hang and crash my Ubuntu GUI when I "have to" build the whole moveit2 source code.

I'll try to learn Movit2 from inside a container in the meanwhile... Or I could try the --executor sequential option, but that is not the point of my issue with this repo. Thank you for the help!

Your environment

• ROS Distro: Jazzy
• OS Version: Ubuntu 24.04
• Binary build
• If binary, which release version? ros-jazzy-moveit

Steps to reproduce

Follow these instructions:
https://moveit.ai/install-moveit2/binary/
Then the tutorials that are linked on that same page:
https://moveit.picknik.ai/main/doc/tutorials/quickstart_in_rviz/quickstart_in_rviz_tutorial.html
Uninstall the just installed binaries to build EVERYTHING from scratch

Expected behaviour

Crash you sub-par computer

Backtrace or Console output

Cannot report as my Ubuntu crashes (I am not trying for the 3rd time!), but all packages where building correctly as supposed, at least up to movit_core or something like that.

[sea-bass]

We're working on releasing Jazzy soon! The tutorials may work with binaries after the next Jazzy sync.

However, binary releases are less frequent, and the main branch of the tutorials is specifically developed to track the main branch of MoveIt.

So it will not always be guaranteed to have everything working with binaries, hence the recommendation to build from source.

[Pittmann-XIE]

Hello, does the current binary version of moveit2-jazzy support the tutorial?

[mikeferguson]

@Pittmann-XIE the sync of the latest jazzy release has not yet happened - probably a few more days before 2.12 lands in the public Debian repo.

You could try changing to the testing Debians if you're familiar with that workflow (if you're not, it might be best to wait for the official sync).

[Pittmann-XIE]

Thanks. Does the binary installation of moveit2-jazzy supports Moveit-Python-APIs? Or only build from source supports Python APIs?

[sea-bass]

The binaries should support the MoveIt Python interface as well.

[mikeferguson]

With the 2.12.0 release of Debians, the tutorials do build on Jazzy (I'm tracking changes that need to be made to the tutorials as I run through testing over here: #995)