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Instructions for Source Install of ROS Jade

First Check the following in Software & Updates

  • Canonical-supported free and open-sources software (main)
  • Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe)
  • Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
  • Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)

Uncheck Source code Download from: http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu

Bootstrap Dependencies to facilitate the download and management of ROS Making sure to have buid tools like compiler, CMake, etc.

sudo pip install -U rosdep rosinstall_generator wstool rosinstall

sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools

Initialize rosdep

sudo rosdep init
rosdep update

Installing core ROS packages Create a catkin workspace

mkdir ~/ros_catkin_ws
cd ~/ros_catkin_ws

Desktop-Full Install: ROS, rqt, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception

$ rosinstall_generator desktop_full --rosdistro jade --deps --wet-only --tar > jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall
$ wstool init -j8 src jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall

In case of error or termination:

wstool update -j 4 -t src

Switch to Chinese Mirror to increase speed

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list

#deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu trusty main
deb http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/ros/ubuntu trusty main

Making sure to have all the required dependencies

rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro jade -y

Build the catkin workspace Invoke catkin_make_isolated

./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

ERROR You may come across an error with cmake not locating findEigen3.cmake The code is designed for cmake 2.8 but you can resolve this by making a soft link to 2.8’s findEigen3

sudo ln -s /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindEigen3.cmake /usr/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindEigen3.cmake

Invoke catkin_make_isolated

Packages will have now be installed There should also be a setup.bash in ~/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated

source ~/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/setup.bash

Maintenance Move rosinstall file so it doesn’t get overwritten and generate and updated version

$ mv -i jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall.old
$ rosinstall_generator desktop_full --rosdistro jade --deps --wet-only --tar > jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall

Compare new rosintall file with old to see the updated packages

diff -u jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall.old

Incorporate the changes

$ wstool merge -t src jade-desktop-full-wet.rosinstall
$ wstool update -t src

Rebuild workspace

./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install

Source the files

source ~/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/setup.bash