Ubuntu install
We are building Debian packages for several Ubuntu platforms, listed below. These packages are more efficient than SVN-based builds and are our preferred installation method for Ubuntu.
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Installation
Setup your sources.list
You will first need to setup your sources.list file to accept Debian packages from the ROS server.
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu jaunty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu karmic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Set up your keys
wget http://code.ros.org/packages/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
Installation
Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server:
sudo apt-get update
Choose your preferred install:
ROS only:
sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-ros
Base: ROS plus robot-generic stacks (e.g. navigation, visualization)
sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-base
PR2: ROS plus PR2-specific stacks, including PR2 simulator.
sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-pr2
Note: You will get a prompt about hddtemp: you can safely answer no to the prompt if you are not installing on an actual PR2. To avoid getting the prompt, you can set the debconf selection ahead of time:
echo "hddtemp hddtemp/daemon boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
PR2 All: ROS plus PR2 and bleeding edge research/experimental stacks.
sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-pr2all
Note: You will get a prompt about hddtemp: you can safely answer no to the prompt if you are not installing on an actual PR2. To avoid getting the prompt, you can set the debconf selection ahead of time:
echo "hddtemp hddtemp/daemon boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
Stack-specific: You can also install a specific ROS stack (replace underscores with dashes of the stack name):
sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-STACK
e.g.sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-slam-gmapping
Environment Setup
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/cturtle/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, you can type:
source /opt/ros/cturtle/setup.sh
