February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 50m
English
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ROS navigation packages
The following steps provide the installation instructions for ROS Kinetic, the version running in Ubuntu 16.04:
- First, let's prepare your machine with the required ROS packages needed for the navigation stack:
$ sudo apt install ros-kinetic-navigation ros-kinetic-amcl ros-kinetic-map-server ros-kinetic-move-base ros-kinetic-urdf ros-kinetic-xacro ros-kinetic-compressed-image-transport ros-kinetic-rqt-image-view
- In ROS Kinetic, you can install slam_gmapping from binaries:
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-slam-gmapping
This installs the gmapping and openslam_gmapping packages. If working with ROS Melodic (that is, you are in Ubuntu 18.04):
- Install the corresponding versions for Melodic:
$ sudo apt install ros-melodic-navigation ...