ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Installing ROS

We are ready to start the installation now, but before we do that, we'd better make an update to avoid problems with the libraries and versions of software that are not ideal for ROS. This is done with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get update

ROS is huge; sometimes you will install libraries and programs that you will never use. Normally it has four different installations, but this depends on the final use. For 

example, if you are an advanced user, you might only need the basic installation for a robot without much space on the hard disk. For this section, we recommend you use the full installation because it will install everything necessary to practice the examples and tutorials.

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