Ubuntu install of ROS Jade

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Contents

Ubuntu install of ROS Jade
1. Installation
2. Tutorials
  1. Obtain source code of the installed packages

Installation

ROS Jade ONLY supports Trusty (14.04), Utopic (14.10) and Vivid (15.04) 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'

Mirrors

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
```
- 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.
  - $/!\$ 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-utopic mesa-common-dev-lts-utopic libxatracker-dev-lts-utopic libopenvg1-mesa-dev-lts-utopic libgles2-mesa-dev-lts-utopic libgles1-mesa-dev-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-dev-lts-utopic libgbm-dev-lts-utopic libegl1-mesa-dev-lts-utopic
```
    $/!\$ 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-utopic
```
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, navigation and 2D/3D perception
Jade uses Gazebo 5 which is the default version of Gazebo and is recommended. If you would like to instead use a newer version of Gazebo (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-jade-desktop-full
```
  or click here
Desktop Install: ROS, rqt, rviz, and robot-generic libraries
- ```
sudo apt-get install ros-jade-desktop
```
  or click here
ROS-Base: (Bare Bones) ROS package, build, and communication libraries. No GUI tools.
- ```
sudo apt-get install ros-jade-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-jade-PACKAGE
```
  e.g.
```
sudo apt-get install ros-jade-slam-gmapping
```

To find available packages, use:

```
apt-cache search ros-jade
```

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/jade/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/jade/setup.bash

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.

Tutorials

Now, to test your installation, please proceed to the ROS Tutorials.

Obtain source code of the installed packages

If you know the location of the repository of each package, you know you can obtain all the code there. But it's often hard even for experienced developers to reach the correct maintained repository of certain packages. Also, in some situations you just want to get the source of the released, installed version of a package. The methods described here the best for these cases.

In earlier days of ROS (supposedly electric or earlier) you can obtain by the way noted in this question.
Now just apt-get source (sudo not needed) as following. You don't even need to explicitly specify deb-src entry etc. This downloads from the server all the files in the released version of the package (i.e. things not installed in the installation rule (e.g. CMakeLists.txt) are also included).

$ apt-get source ros-jade-laser-pipeline

A drawback might be that you have to specify a single, exact package name (asterisks do not work).

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