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== Resources ==

Revision as of 12:21, 22 September 2010


Step by step tutorial

Installation

- Install Ubuntu 10.04 (this is the supported ubuntu version at September 2010) as native OS or inside a virtual machine (tested on VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org)

- Add ROS apt repositories and add ROS PGP keys to your system:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
wget http://code.ros.org/packages/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

- Install ros-cturtle-base

sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-base

Configuration

- In order to automatically add ROS environment variables when opening a termina, add ROS setup.sh script to bash resource file:

echo "source /opt/ros/cturtle/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

Tips

- If you try to update your system with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and you obtain a message like:

[...]
The following packages have been kept back:
[...]

Try to use

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade

Aptitute manage dependancies better than apt-get, so you should be able to update your system properly

Resources

- ROS website: http://www.ros.org

- ROS Cturtle installation instructions: http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Ubuntu

- VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org