March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
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Setting up Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 14.04.3
Eclipse needs Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in order to work. The following command can install JRE in Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install default-jre
The first step is to download the latest eclipse IDE. We can get the latest version of Eclipse at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=linux.
Figure 1: Eclipse IDE download page
Download and extract the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers that is marked on the preceding image. Extract the Eclipse archive file using the following command. Here we are using Eclipse mars for Linux 64 bit:
$ tar -xvzf eclipse-cpp-<name_version>-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz