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Generally because A) ROS doesn't officially support other distros and there just way to many linking issues because of the various ways distros do things.

B) As oppose to Ubuntu you have to manually compile all the packages in other distros. Things aren't guaranteed to work so it's not really the safe bet system wide...

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