ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Initializing rosdep

Before using ROS we need to initialize rosdep. The rosdep command-line tool helps with the installation of system dependencies for the source code that we are going to compile or install. For this reason, it is required by some of the core components in ROS, so it is installed by default with it. To initialize rosdep, you have to run the following commands:

$ sudo rosdep init$ rosdep update