ROS Setup
How to install ROS.
Robot Operating System (ROS) is robotics middleware. Although it is not an operating system, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
To install ROS, open the terminal and run the following:
# setup sources.list
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
# setup keys
sudo apt install curl # if you haven't already installed curl
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc | sudo apt-key add -
# installation
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop-full
#initialize rosdep
sudo apt install python3-rosdep #if you have not yet installed rosdep,run this line otherwise skip
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update
# setup environment
echo "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
# fulfill dependencies
sudo apt install python3-rosdep python3-rosinstall python3-rosinstall-generator python3-wstool build-essential ```
# installation for gazebo
curl -sSL http://get.gazebosim.org | sh
sudo apt-get install gazebo11
# single liner installation for meshlab
sudo apt -y install meshlab
If the above install fails, follow the instructions given here: https://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_install_of_ROS_Noetic
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