Development Workstation Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

• A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.

Outcome of this step

• Development workstation running stock ROS Groovy

Ubuntu 12.04 - ROS Groovy - Installation Steps

1. Install Ubuntu

Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. You can find the appropriate image here.

2. Install ROS

Install ROS Groovy for Ubuntu 12.04. Detailed instructions may be found here. Following is a short list of what you need to do to get ready for the Baxter Research SDK.

• Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide here for instructions on doing this.
  Note: Your installation of Ubuntu likely may be pre-configured to allow these repositories. You can skip this step if the above Ubuntu repositories are already included in your /etc/apt/sources.list file ("allowed" sources start with 'deb' and no '#', and end with the names above).

• Add the ROS repositories to your sources.list

  $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'  

• Set up your keys

  $ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -  

• Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server

  $ sudo apt-get update  

• Install ROS Groovy:
  Choose the " Desktop-Full Install (Recommended)" variant of ROS Groovy -- this includes ROS, rqt gui tools, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception

  $ sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-desktop-full

• Install 3rd-Party libraries:
  Install additional ROS packages:

  $ sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-control ros-groovy-joystick-drivers

  If argparse is not installed on the development workstation, install it with the following command:

  $ sudo apt-get install python-argparse

• Initialize rosdep (ROS system dependency tool)

  $ sudo rosdep init 
  $ rosdep update  

• (Optional) Set up the ROS environment so that the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched

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

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

  To change your current environment (e.g. substituting <ros-distro>=groovy):

  $ source /opt/ros/<ros-distro>/setup.bash

Next Steps

Setting up github