ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Setting up your source.list file

In this step, you have to select your Ubuntu version. It is possible to install ROS Kinetic in various versions of the operating system. You can use any of them, but we recommend version 15.10 to follow the chapters of this section. Keep in mind that Kinetic works in the Wily Werewolf (15.10) and Xenial Xerus (16.04) versions of Ubuntu. Type the following command to add the repositories:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Downloading the example code: Detailed steps to download the code bundle are mentioned in the Preface of this section. Please have a look. The code bundle for the section is also hosted on GitHub at ...