ROS Jade installation instructions

These instructions will install our current release, ROS Jade Turtle. To install our previous release, ROS Indigo Igloo, please see the Indigo installation instructions. Indigo Igloo is an LTS, supported for five years in total.

Below are instructions for installing ROS on various operating systems. You may also wish to look at robot-specific installation options instead.

Notice: ROS Jade Turtle is the latest release, but ROS Indigo Igloo is our LTS (Long Term Service) release, which is supported through the life time of Ubuntu Trusty, and it is recommended for situations where stability is paramount.

Select Your Platform

Supported:

Ubuntu

Ubuntu (armhf)

Source installation

Experimental:

OS X (Homebrew)
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Android (NDK)

Unofficial Installation Alternatives:

Debian (Jessie, Stretch, ...) Source installation of ROS-Comm: (Bare Bones)

Or, Select your robot

Robots:

Way more robots supported here: Robots