Installing prerequisites

This project is fully compatible with ROS Indigo, but some packages are yet to be released in ROS Kinetic. Let's take a look at the prerequisites for setting up packages in ROS Indigo.

The commands given here will install the ROS Gazebo controller manager:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-controller-manager
    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-control ros-indigo-ros-controllers
    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-gazebo-ros-control

After installing this, we can install the Velodyne simulator packages in Indigo using the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-velodyne

This project uses SICK laser scanners, so we have to install the SICK ROS toolbox packages:

    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-sicktoolbox ...

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