youbot-ros-pkg Installation

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Install Ubuntu

The repository and its related components have been tested under the following Ubuntu distributions:

Ubuntu 10.04 (ROS Electric, ROS Fuerte)
Ubuntu 11.10 (ROS Electric, ROS Fuerte)
Ubuntu 12.04 (ROS Fuerte)

If you do not have a Ubuntu distribution on your computer you can download it here

 http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Git - Version Control

Install Git Software

Install the Git core components:

 sudo apt-get install git-core

ROS - Robot Operating System

Install ROS Fuerte

The repository has been tested successfully with the following ROS distributions. Use the link behind a ROS distribution to get to the particular ROS installation instructions.

ROS Fuerte - http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Ubuntu
ROS Electric - http://www.ros.org/wiki/electric/Installation/Ubuntu

NOTE: Do not forget to update your .bashrc!

Clone and compile the youbot-ros-pkg Software

First of all you have to clone the RoboCupAtHome repository.

cd ~/ros_stacks
git clone git@github.com:youbot/youbot-ros-pkg.git
cd ~/ros_stacks/youbot-ros-pkg

Switch to the correct branch:

git checkout electric --  if you want to work with ros electric
git checkout fuerte -- if you want to work with ros fuerte

Then go on with installing further external dependencies:

sudo easy_install -U rosinstall vcstools

./repository.debs
rosinstall .. /opt/ros/fuerte repository.rosinstall

echo "export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros_stacks:\$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc