Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Accessing package files and building the workspace using RoboWare

Here's an alternative method. The following demonstrates that you can clone a package repository and build the workspace using RoboWare.

After cloning and placing the code of the chapter, as explained in the Setting up the ROS package section, you can explore the content in the file tree view on the left-hand side of the IDE window. Clicking on any of the files will let you see the content in the main window:

Finally, build the workspace; note that this is something you will have to do each time you create a new package on your own or when you clone an external one. To do that, ...