I got ros base install to build following the instructions here
http://wiki.ros.org/ROSberryPi/Instal...
the python tools didn't work first time, sorry cant remember what I did that fixed it - I think installing python-dev and just doing it over again fixed it, but trying to build for turtlebot kobuki ftdi failed with
==> make -j4 -l4 in '/home/pi/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/kobuki_ftdi'
Scanning dependencies of target ftdi_kobuki
Scanning dependencies of target flasher
Scanning dependencies of target find_devices
Scanning dependencies of target ftdi_read_eeprom
[ 20%] [ 20%] [ 30%] [ 40%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/flasher.dir/flasher.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/find_devices.dir/find_devices.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_kobuki.dir/ftdi_kobuki.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_read_eeprom.dir/ftdi_read_eeprom.cpp.o
/home/pi/ros_catkin_ws/src/kobuki_core/kobuki_ftdi/src/ftdi_kobuki.cpp:60:18: fatal error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
/home/pi/ros_catkin_ws/src/kobuki_core/kobuki_ftdi/src/ftdi_read_eeprom.cpp:45:18: fatal error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_kobuki.dir/build.make:54: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_kobuki.dir/ftdi_kobuki.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: * [src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_kobuki.dir/ftdi_kobuki.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:396: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/ftdi_kobuki.dir/all' failed