ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Configuring your Ubuntu repositories

In this section, you will learn the steps for installing ROS Kinetic in your computer. This process has been based on the official installation page, which can be found at http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu.

We assume that you know what an Ubuntu repository is and how to manage it. If you have any doubts about it, refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu.

Before we start the installation, we need to configure our repositories. To do that, the repositories need to allow restricted, universe, and multiverse. To check if your Ubuntu accepts these repositories, click on Ubuntu Software Center in the menu on the left-hand side of your desktop, as shown in the following screenshot: ...