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How To Install ROS

To install ROS (Robot Operating System) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, you need to: 1. Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow restricted, universe, and multiverse packages. 2. Set up your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org by creating a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list with a line for the ROS Ubuntu repositories. 3. Set up authentication keys to allow ROS to install software by downloading and adding the ROS key with wget and apt-key add. 4. Install ROS by updating package lists and installing the ros-hydro-desktop-full package with apt-get. 5. Initialize

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How To Install ROS

To install ROS (Robot Operating System) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, you need to: 1. Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow restricted, universe, and multiverse packages. 2. Set up your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org by creating a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list with a line for the ROS Ubuntu repositories. 3. Set up authentication keys to allow ROS to install software by downloading and adding the ROS key with wget and apt-key add. 4. Install ROS by updating package lists and installing the ros-hydro-desktop-full package with apt-get. 5. Initialize

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How to install ROS (Robot Operating System) 1.

Configure your Ubuntu repositories


By David Mutchler and Tayler Burns Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow restricted, universe
Extracted from the web pages listed below and multiverse. Here are instructions for how to do so, but you
can visit:
Prerequisites:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
• You have installed and are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term
Support). if you want a more detailed explanation.
a. Open the Ubuntu Software Center.
• You are connected to the Internet. (Wired may be best.)
b. From the Edit menu select “Software Sources.” You may have
• You know how to do the following in Ubuntu:
to enter your password to change settings in this window.
o Locate files, including those that begin with a slash.
c. Check the first 4 boxes as shown in the picture below:
o Edit and create files, including “dot” files. Consider gedit?
d. Select Close to save your changes. A dialog box may appear
o Copy and paste text. asking whether you would like to update the list of
o Open a Terminal window. (Control-Alt-T.)
o Use a Terminal window to execute commands:
• What a “command” is
• What “arguments” are
• What “options” are. The dash character.
• Up-arrow and other shortcuts.
• The meaning of the special characters / . .. ~ in
filenames.
• What a “shell” is, what it means to “launch” one
o Use sudo (Super-User DO), including entering passwords.
o Open Ubuntu things like the Ubuntu Software Center.

The following instructions are extracted from:


repositories. If so,
http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/Ubuntu select Reload to
update the list.
2. Setup your sources.list you want to compile. It is required to run some core components
in ROS. To initialize rosdep, type in a Terminal window:
Set up your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org.
To do so, create the following file: sudo rosdep init
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list rosdep update

and put the following line into it:


deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main 6. Environment setup
ROS expects certain environment variables. Rather than set their
values every time you want to use ROS, it is convenient to have
3. Set up your keys
them automatically set for you every time you open a Terminal
Set up your “keys” that allow ROS to install software. To do so: window (more precisely, every time a new shell is launched). To
In a Terminal window, type: do this setup:

wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - Open the file: ~/.bashrc


| sudo apt-key add - At the end of that file, add the line:
Note: This is a SINGLE line; throughout, I use indentation to echo "source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash"
indicate line-continuation in this document.

Then, just this once, run that file so that the changes take effect
4. Installation immediately (in your current Terminal window), as follows:
Do the actual installation of ROS. To do so, type the following two source ~/.bashrc
commands in a Terminal window. Each may take several (many?) From the above: Understand NOW what echo and source
minutes. The first command updates the file that Ubuntu uses to do in general. Ask questions as needed!
get software. The second command downloads the ROS files.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop-full 7. Getting rosinstall
rosinstall is a frequently used command-line tool in ROS that is
From the above: Understand NOW what apt-get does in
distributed separately. It enables you to easily download many
general. Ask questions as needed! source trees for ROS packages with one command. To get this
tool, type in a Terminal window:
5. Initialize rosdep sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

Before you can use ROS, you will need to initialize rosdep, a tool
that enables you install system dependencies for source code that

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