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2. ROS Installation

SionJeon edited this page Dec 1, 2023 · 1 revision

1. Installation

1. 1 Configure you Ubuntu repositories

Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide for instructions on doing this.

1. 2 Setup your sources.list

Setup your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

1. 3 Set up your keys

sudo apt install curl # if you haven't already installed curl

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc | sudo apt-key add -

1.4 Installation

First, make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:

sudo apt update Now pick how much of ROS you would like to install.

Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended) : Everything in **Desktop **plus 2D/3D simulators and 2D/3D perception packages

sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop-full or click here

Desktop Install: Everything in ROS-Base plus tools like rqt and rviz

sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop or click here

ROS-Base: (Bare Bones) ROS packaging, build, and communication libraries. No GUI tools.

sudo apt install ros-noetic-ros-base or click here

1.5 Environment setup

You must source this script in every bash terminal you use ROS in. source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash

1. 6 Dependencies for building packages

Up to now you have installed what you need to run the core ROS packages. To create and manage your own ROS workspaces, there are various tools and requirements that are distributed separately. For example, rosinstall is a frequently used command-line tool that enables you to easily download many source trees for ROS packages with one command.

To install this tool and other dependencies for building ROS packages, run:

sudo apt install python3-rosdep python3-rosinstall python3-rosinstall-generator python3-wstool build-essential

1.6. 1 Initialize rosdep

Before you can use many ROS tools, you will need to initialize rosdep. rosdep enables you to easily install system dependencies for source you want to compile and is required to run some core components in ROS. If you have not yet installed rosdep, do so as follows.

sudo apt install python3-rosdep With the following, you can initialize rosdep.

sudo rosdep init rosdep update