ROS

My Environment

VMware Workstation 15 Player + Ubuntu x64 2020.04

Configure your Ubuntu repositories

Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse."

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'

Set up your keys

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

Installation

First, make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:

sudo apt update

Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended) : Everything in Desktop plus 2D/3D simulators and 2D/3D perception packages

sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop-full

There are even more packages available in ROS. You can always install a specific package directly.

To find available packages, see ROS Index or use:

apt search ros-noetic

Environment setup

If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.

echo "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Test

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