Installing on Debian from SVN
Install from SVN requires that you download and compile the source code on your own.
Installation
Setup
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-yaml cmake subversion wget python-setuptools
If compilation bails out with the error
Failed to find rosdep boost for package rosout on OS:debian version:squeeze
install these packages, too:
liblog4cxx10-dev python-wxgtk2.8 doxygen python-epydoc graphviz libapr1-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libaprutil1-dev python-paramiko libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-iostreams-dev
The error might still be thrown, but ros ("ROS-only") builds fine.
[ rosmake ] Built 73 packages with 0 failures.
For the "Base Install" you additionally need package mercurial, otherwise you get
ERROR: woah, unknown installation method hg not installed, cannot create a hg vcs client
rosinstall
The following lines will download the ROS source code using the rosinstall tool, and bootstrap the installation. The installation downloads all ROS stacks in subdirectories inside the ~/ros directory, one subdirectory for each stack in the rosinstall file.
First install rosinstall:
sudo easy_install -U rosinstall
Then use rosinstall to download your preferred C-Turtle variant:
ROS-only: Includes basic ROS and tutorials.
rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=ros_only&overlay=no"
Base Install: ROS plus robot-generic stacks (e.g. navigation, visualization)
rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=base&overlay=no"
PR2 Install: ROS plus PR2-specific stacks, including PR2 simulator.
rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=pr2&overlay=no"
PR2 All Install: ROS plus PR2 and bleeding edge research/experimental stacks.
rosinstall ~/ros "http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=pr2all&overlay=no"
NOTE: the instructions above download all stacks inside the ~/ros folder. If you prefer a different location, simply change the ~/ros in the commands above.
Environment Setup
You'll now need to update your environment. You can do this by typing:
source ~/ros/setup.bash
It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched, which you can do with the command below:
echo "source ~/ros/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
For Zsh users, change the last line of ~/ros/setup.zsh to
source $ROS_ROOT/tools/rosbash/roszsh
before running source ~/ros/setup.zsh Similarly, have the setup script called at the start of each new shell session with
echo "source ~/ros/setup.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc . ~/.zshrc