ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Installing the ROS packages

Before the installation of ROS packages, we must update the system to see all the packages on the ROS repository just added:

$ sudo apt-get update

This part of the installation is slightly different for the BeagleBone Black. There are a lot of libraries and packages in ROS, and not all of them compile fully on an ARM, so it is not possible to make a full desktop installation. It is recommended that you install them package by package to ensure that they will work on an ARM platform.

You can try to install ROS-base, known as ROS Bare Bones. ROS-base installs the ROS package along with the build and communications libraries but does not include the GUI tools (press ENTER (Y) when prompted):

$ sudo apt-get install ...