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Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

• We will work with Linux mostly. So,download and install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version in your PC.
• Download from here.
• Detailed installation instructions can be found here.

Install ROS Indigo

Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source software framework for robot software development which we use in our project, specifically its Indigo release version. Installation instructions can be found here . We have also listed it down for convenience.

• Open terminal by pressing (Alt+Ctrl+T)
• Setup your sources.list:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

* Set up your keys:  
    `wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -` 
* Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server:  
    `sudo apt-get update`
* Install full desktop package of ROS Indigo:  
    `sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full`  
This package is quite huge and takes more than a few minutes to complete, and there is a good chance of the download process being interrupted. So __if you run into errors in this step, run it repeatedly till the download is complete.__
* Environment Setup:  
    `echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc`  
    `. ~/.bashrc`
* Install rosdep and rosinstall:  
    `sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall python-rosdep`
* Initialize rosdep:  
    `sudo -E rosdep init`  
followed by  
    `rosdep update`

### ROS Tutorials
[ROS Tutorials](http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials)