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INSTALLING & GETTING STARTED WITH ROS | How to install ROS & How to setup Catkin Workspace on Ubuntu

Check out the full video tutorial by clicking on the image:
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Full Tutorial Series: https://bit.ly/rostutorials

The below commands are for installing ROS Kinetic Kame on Ubuntu 16.04
Commands to install other versions of ROS will be updated soon. But you can even try to install those just by replacing ros-kinetic with ros-<your_distro_name> in the given commands. You can click on watch repository icon to know whenever I update the commands.

If you find these steps useful, please give a ⭐ to this repository by clicking on the option on top-right corner of the page 🙂

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'

Adding Key

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654

Update package list

sudo apt-get update

Installing ROS Kinetic Full Desktop Version

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

Initialize Ros Dependencies

sudo rosdep init

rosdep update

Setting up ROS Environment

printf "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

Installing Python Packages for ROS

sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

sudo apt install python-catkin-tools

Other Important ROS Packages

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-tf-*

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-pcl-msgs ros-kinetic-mav-msgs ros-kinetic-mavros ros-kinetic-octomap-* ros-kinetic-geographic-msgs libgeographic-dev

Creating Catkin Workspace

mkdir catkin_ws

cd catkin_ws

mkdir -p src

cd src

catkin_init_workspace

printf "source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

cd ~/catkin_ws

catkin_make

source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

Checking ROS & Gazebo Versions

On Ubunutu 16.04, you should have ROS Kinetic with Gazebo 7,
whereas on Ubuntu 18.04, you should have ROS Melodic with Gazebo 9

rosversion -d

gazebo -v

Check out ROS Tutorial

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials
Try to complete the Begineer Level tutorials.
If you have any doubts, you can let me know!

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