{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set title = 'ROS packages' %}
{% block body %}
  <h1>Welcome</h1>

  <p>
    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:

    <ul>
    <li>Ubuntu (apt)</li>
    <li>Debian (apt)</li>
    <li>OS X (Homebrew)</li>
    <li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rpm/experimental)</li>
    <li>Arch (pacman/experimental)</li>
    <li>Gentoo (equery/experimental)</li>
    <li>Slackware (sbotools/experimental)</li>
    <li>Cygwin (experimental)</li>
    </ul>
    
  </p>
  <h2>Documentation</h2>

  <table class="contentstable" align="center" style="margin-left: 30px"><tr>
    <td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("overview") }}">Overview</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">Installing and using rosdep</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("commands") }}">Command-line reference</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">rosdep command usage</span></p>

      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("contributing_rules") }}">Contributing rosdep rules</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">How to submit new/updated rules for rosdep</span></p>

    </td><td width="50%">

      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("rosdep_yaml_format") }}">Rosdep YAML format</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">Specification of the rosdep.yaml file formats</span></p>


      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("developers_guide") }}">Developers Guide</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">How to contribute new OS/package managers to rosdep</span></p>

      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("rosdep2_api") }}">Python API</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr"><em>Unstable</em> Python API for using rosdep as a library</span></p>

    </td></tr>
  </table>

{% endblock %}

