This set of instructions is for installing ROS Kinetic. It was tested on Ubuntu 20.04.
- Log on to Ubuntu as an administrator or user that can run sudo commands.
- Open Terminal
ROS Installation Configuration
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’
- Set up your keys
- sudo apt-key adv –keyserver ‘hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80’ –recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654
Installation of ROS
- 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
There are even more packages available in ROS. You can always install a specific package directly.
apt search ros-noetic
Environment setup
- You must run this source script in every bash terminal you use ROS in
source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash
It can be convenient to automatically source this script every time a new shell is launched.
- If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.
echo “source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash” >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Python setup
sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall
Test the Installation
- Open Terminal
- Type in Commands
rosversion -d
roscore
Both commands will provide details of the ROS Version installed
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