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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing ROS Kinetic using repositories

Last year, the ROS web page was updated with a new design and a new organization of contents. The following is a screenshot of the web page:

In the menu, you can find information about ROS and whether ROS is a good choice for your system. You can also find blogs, news, and other features.

Instructions for ROS installation can be found under the Install tab in the Getting Started section.

ROS recommends that you install the system using the repository instead of the source code, unless you are an advanced user and you want to make a customized installation; in that case, you may prefer installing ROS ...

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ISBN: 9781788627436