Ubuntu install of ROS Indigo
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Installation
ROS Indigo ONLY supports Saucy (13.10) and Trusty (14.04) for debian packages.
Configure your Ubuntu repositories
Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide for instructions on doing this.
Setup your sources.list
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'
Source Debs are also available |
Set up your 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
First, make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dpkg
If you are using Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.2 and experience dependency issues during the ROS installation, you may have to install some additional system dependencies.
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Do not install these packages if you are using 14.04, it will destroy your X server: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev-lts-trusty mesa-common-dev-lts-trusty libxatracker-dev-lts-trusty libopenvg1-mesa-dev-lts-trusty libgles2-mesa-dev-lts-trusty libgles1-mesa-dev-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-dev-lts-trusty libgbm-dev-lts-trusty libegl1-mesa-dev-lts-trusty
Do not install the above packages if you are using 14.04, it will destroy your X server
Alternatively, try installing just this to fix dependency issues:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev-lts-trusty
For more information on this issue see this answers.ros.org thread or this launchpad issue
There are many different libraries and tools in ROS. We provided four default configurations to get you started. You can also install ROS packages individually.
Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended) : ROS, rqt, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators and 2D/3D perception
Indigo uses Gazebo 2 which is the default version of Gazebo on Trusty and is recommended. If you would like to instead use a newer version of Gazebo (5, 6 or 7), refer to these instructions on the Gazebo site. Note that installing a newer version of Gazebo will require you to build dependent packages (such as turtlebot_gazebo) to be built from source. See also Using a specific Gazebo version with ROS.
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full
or click here
Desktop Install: ROS, rqt, rviz, and robot-generic libraries
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop
or click here
ROS-Base: (Bare Bones) ROS package, build, and communication libraries. No GUI tools.
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-base
or click here
Individual Package: You can also install a specific ROS package (replace underscores with dashes of the package name):
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-PACKAGE
e.g.sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-slam-gmapping
To find available packages, use:
apt-cache search ros-indigo
Initialize rosdep
Before you can use ROS, you will need to initialize rosdep. rosdep enables you to easily install system dependencies for source you want to compile and is required to run some core components in ROS.
sudo rosdep init rosdep update
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/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc
If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.
If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, you can type:
source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash
If you use zsh instead of bash you need to run the following commands to set up your shell:
echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc
Getting rosinstall
rosinstall is a frequently used command-line tool in ROS that is distributed separately. It enables you to easily download many source trees for ROS packages with one command.
To install this tool on Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall
Build farm status
The packages that you installed were built by ROS build farm. You can check the status of individual packages here.