ROS Installation Notes¶
These ROS installation notes are only useful if the default installation does not work for you (for instance, you are running on an older version of Ubuntu or Debian).
If the packages python3-catkin-tools
and
python3-yaml
are available for your distribution, install them, and
that should be sufficient. In this case you’re ready to read
the ROS + MORSE tutorial.
Otherwise, follow these steps to install them manually:
Install ROS and run
sudo rosdep init
androsdep update
as explained in the installation wikiInstall Python 3 using your system package manager (available in Ubuntu >= 11.04) or manually from the source, and make sure your
$PYTHONPATH
variable includes the Python 3 libraries:sudo apt-get install python3-dev
Install
PyYAML
with Python 3 support:sudo apt-get install python3-yaml
or get it via
pip
the sources from http://pyyaml.org and build it using python3:pip3 install pyyaml
Install catkin with Python 3 support:
pip3 install catkin_pkg rospkg
Open a terminal and check if everything is correctly set. Therefore, open a terminal and type:
morse check
If successful, the following line will be printed after some other information about your configuration:
* Your environment is correctly setup to run MORSE.
Now you can start having fun with MORSE and ROS! For example, start reading the ROS + MORSE tutorial.