ROS Installation Summary

This is derived from the official tutorial

  1. Run this code:

    Note: We’re using ros-melodic-desktop-full

    #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
    
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop-full
    #sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop
    #sudo apt install ros-melodic-ros-base
    
    #To find available packages, use:
    #apt search ros-melodic
    
    #It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched:
    echo "source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
    echo "export EDITOR='nano -w'" >> ~/.bashrc #from https://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UsingRosEd
    source ~/.bashrc
    
    
    #To install tools and other dependencies for building ROS packages, run:
    sudo apt install python-rosdep python-rosinstall python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool build-essential
    #not sure if you need to do the next line.
    #sudo apt install python3-rosdep python3-rosinstall python3-rosinstall-generator python3-wstool build-essential
    sudo apt install python-rosdep
    
    sudo rosdep init
    rosdep update
    
  2. Install catkin tools

    sudo apt install -y catkin-tools
    sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-yaml
    sudo pip3 install rospkg catkin_pkg empy
    
  3. Take a Snapshot