ROS2 Usage

This page describes how to install and use ROS2 on Fedora and related platforms.

Official Fedora Support with Lyrical

Open Robotics will provide official ROS2 RPM packages for Fedora starting with Lyrical Luth, the 2026 LTS release. These will be the production-supported, CVE-tracked packages for running ROS2 on Fedora.

Until the official Lyrical packages ship, the development-only Copr repository described below provides a way to experiment with ROS2 Jazzy on Fedora today.

Supported Platforms

The hellaenergy/ros2 Copr repository builds across the following platforms:

Distribution x86_64 aarch64

Fedora 44

Yes

Yes

Fedora rawhide

Yes

Yes

CentOS Stream 10

Yes

Yes

Fedora Installation

The hellaenergy/ros2 Copr is a development-only package set, not the official ROS2 packages for Fedora. For production deployments, use the official Open Robotics Lyrical packages when they ship. Spec files for this Copr are hosted on GitHub. 
sudo dnf copr enable hellaenergy/ros2
sudo dnf install ros-jazzy-ros-base

For developer tooling (rqt, ros2cli, Cyclone DDS, demo nodes):

sudo dnf install ros-jazzy-ros-desktop
The rviz2 3D visualizer is not available in this Copr due to upstream build issues with Ogre and Assimp on Fedora. The rqt tools provide non-3D debugging (graph, topic echo, console, plot). See the rviz2 deferral documentation for details and workarounds.

Verify the installation by running:

source /opt/ros/jazzy/setup.bash
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nickschuetz/ros2-rpm/main/scripts/smoke-test.sh)

CentOS Stream 10 Installation

The hellaenergy/ros2 Copr also supports CentOS Stream 10 with EPEL 10. Install using the same commands as Fedora:

sudo dnf copr enable hellaenergy/ros2
sudo dnf install ros-jazzy-ros-base
The Qt5-based developer tools (rqt) are not available on CentOS Stream 10 due to missing build dependencies. CLI tools and headless workflows function normally.

CentOS Stream 9 Installation

ROS2 packages work on CentOS Stream 9 through EPEL9 and the official ROS2 RHEL packages from packages.ros.org. This path uses the upstream Open Robotics RPMs, not the Copr.

See this container image for build instructions: https://gitlab.com/fedora/sigs/robotics/images/ros2-cs9

The upstream Jazzy RHEL9 documentation is available at https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/Installation/RHEL-Install-RPMs.html.
The smoke test script only works with Fedora images for now.

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