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Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

• We will work with Linux mostly. So,download and install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS version in your PC.
• Download from here.
• Detailed installation instructions can be found here.

Install ROS Hydro

Robot Operating System (ROS) is a software framework for robot software development. The installation instructions can be found here . We have also listed it down for conveyance. All these commands have to be entered into your terminal.

• Setup your sources.list sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
• Set up your keys wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
• Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server: sudo apt-get update
• Desktop-Full Install sudo apt-get install ros-hydro-desktop-full If you run into errors in this step, run it again and again till the download is complete.
• Environment Setup: echo "source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
• Install rosdep and rosinstall : sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall python-rosdep
• Initialize rosdep :sudo resdep init followed by rosdep update

ROS Tutorials

ROS Tutorials

• Please note that we are using rosbuild (not catkin) build system, so select the suitable version at the top of each tutorial page.