Learning ROS setup scripts

The scripts here assume that you have an account on github (which is free at github.com).

You will need "git" installed on your machine to use these scripts. If "git" is not already installed on your machine, it can be installed with: sudo apt-get --yes --force-yes install git

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Getting the scripts and making them executable

To run these scripts, clone learning_ros_setup_scripts anywhere on your computer by typing the following in any directory: git clone https://github.com/wsnewman/learning_ros_setup_scripts.git

Once you have the files, change the directory to learning_ros_setup_scripts by typing: cd learning_ros_setup_scripts

After this, make the scripts executable by typing: chmod +x *.sh

ROS Setup

For ROS Melodic use this line: (System needs to be 18.04) ./install_ros_and_tools_melodic.sh (or bash install_ros_and_tools_melodic.sh)

For other versions of install script, please refer to the respective folders for the install scripts.

Workstation Setup

To setup your ROS workspace for ROS Melodic, use the setup_workspace_learning_ros_melodic.sh script. You will need to pass your github username and email as arguments to the script: ./setup_workspace_learning_ros_melodic.sh github_username github@email.com (or bash setup_workspace_learning_ros_melodic.sh github_username github@email.com) where github_username is your username on github, and github@email.com is your e-mail address associated with your github account.

Setting up STDR simulation for ROS Noetic

First install qt4 and make it default

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rock-core/qt4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libqtcore4 qt4-qmake libqt4-dev
export QT_SELECT=4

make sure it is the active environment by running qtchooser -print-env then install the map_server sudo apt install ros-noetic-map-server Then clone and compile the stdr_simulator package

cd ~/ros_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator.git
cd ..
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro noetic
catkin_make -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4