Quick ROS Install

Instant install script for ROS on various versions of Ubuntu Linux

Install ROS on Ubuntu

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PickNikRobotics/quick-ros-install/master/ros_install.sh && chmod 755 ros_install.sh && ./ros_install.sh melodic

Note: you may need these basic dependencies if, for example, you are running in a Docker container:

apt-get update && apt-get install wget lsb-release sudo -y

Install ROS with Docker

The following documents how to use a Nvidia-ready Docker container. More details.

Install Docker

If you are running a recent version of Ubuntu (e.g. 14.04, 16.04) it can be as simple as:

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)

And you will likely need to log out and back into your user account for the changes to take affect.

Download Nvidia Docker Script

We'll use the same approach provided by the ROS MoveIt! project for providing GPU support:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros-planning/moveit/kinetic-devel/.docker/gui-docker gui-docker
chmod +x gui-docker

Run Docker

./gui-docker -it --rm ros:kinetic-ros-base /bin/bash

Test Docker

apt-get update
apt-get install ros-kinetic-rviz -y
rosrun rviz rviz