ROS Installation

Installation on Ubuntu 10.04.4 (Lucid)

Ubuntu Install of Electric

• Setup sources.list

 
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu lucid main" > 
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

• Set up keys

 
wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

• Installation

 
sudo apt-get update

 
sudo apt-get install ros-electric-desktop-full

• Environment setup

 
echo "source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc 
. ~/.bashrc

Configure Tutorial

ROS Tutorial

• Create ROS Workspace

 
mkdir ~/ros_workspace

• Create init script

Put the following in ~/ros_workspace/setup.sh

 
#!/bin/sh
source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash
export ROS_ROOT=/opt/ros/electric/ros
export PATH=$ROS_ROOT/bin:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=$ROS_ROOT/core/roslib/src:$PYTHONPATH
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros_workspace:/opt/ros/electric/stacks:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH