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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

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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