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This tutorial assumes that you will be working in ROS-hydro on Ubuntu 12.04. This wiki is based on the tutorials given here.

1.1 Beginner Level

Open the terminal. Type in the following commands in the order shown.

Aside to editor, to improve:

1. Installing and configuring your ROS environment

We recommend ROS-hydro on Ubuntu 12.04, instructions given on this link. The commands are given below.

If not using Ubuntu 12.04 and installing hydro: please refer to instructions given here.

Setup sources list:

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

You may be prompted for your super-user password. This should be your username password. Type it into the terminal and press ENTER.

Setup keys:

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Update Debian package:

   sudo apt-get update

Install Desktop-Full:

  sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop-full

Initialize rosdep:

  sudo rosdep init
  rosdep update

Setup Enviornment:

  echo "source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
  source ~/.bashrc

Install rosinstall:

  sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

2. Navigating the ROS Filesystem

3. Creating a ROS Package

4. Building a ROS Package

5. Understanding ROS Nodes

6. Understanding ROS Topics