ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Installing rosserial packages on Ubuntu 14.04/15.04

We can install the rosserial packages on Ubuntu using the following commands:

1. Installing the rosserial package binaries using apt-get:

• In Indigo:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosserial ros-indigo-rosserial-arduino ros-indigo-rosserial-server

• In Jade:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-jade-rosserial ros-jade-rosserial-arduino ros-jade-rosserial-server

2. For installing the rosserial_client library called ros_lib in Arduino, we have to download the latest Arduino IDE for Linux 32/64 bit. Following is the link for downloading Arduino IDE: https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software

• Here we download the Linux 64 bit version and copy the Arduino IDE folder to the Ubuntu desktop.

3. Arduino requires ...