ROS Tutorials
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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.
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1.1 Beginner Level
Open the terminal. To complete each step, type in the following commands in the order shown.
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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