ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Getting rosinstall

Now the next step is to install a command tool that will help us install other packages with a single command. This tool is based in Python, but don't worry, you don't need to know Python to use it. You will learn how to use this tool in the  upcoming chapters:

To install this tool on Ubuntu, run the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

And that's it! You have a complete ROS system installed in your system. When I finish a new installation of ROS, I personally like to test two things: that roscore and turtlesim both work.

If you want to do the same, type the following commands in different shells:

$ roscore$ rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node

If everything is okay, you will see the following screenshot: ...