Native ROS 2 Jazzy Debian packages for Raspberry Pi OS / Debian Trixie (arm64)

ebodev
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:58:25 +0000
ROS General

After spending some time trying to get ROS 2 Jazzy working reliably on Raspberry Pi via Docker and Conda (and losing several rounds to OpenGL, Gazebo plugins, and cross-arch issues), I eventually concluded:)

On Raspberry Pi, ROS really only behaves when it’s installed natively.

So I built the full ROS 2 Jazzy stack as native Debian packages for Raspberry Pi OS / Debian Trixie (arm64), using a reproducible build pipeline:

bloom → dpkg-buildpackage → sbuild → reprepro

signed packages

rosdep-compatible

The result:

Native ROS 2 Jazzy on Pi OS / Debian Trixie

Uses system Mesa / OpenGL

Gazebo plugins load correctly

Cameras, udev, and ros2_control behave

Installable via plain apt

Public APT repository

GitHub - rospian/rospian-repo: ROS2 Jazzy on Raspberry OS Trixie debian repo

Build farm (if you want to reproduce or extend it)

GitHub - rospian/rospian-buildfarm: ROS 2 Jazzy debs for Raspberry Pi OS Trixie with full Debian tooling

Includes the full mini build-farm pipeline.

This was motivated mainly by reliability on embedded systems and multi-machine setups (Gazebo on desktop, control on Pi).

Feedback, testing, or suggestions very welcome.

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