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Installation of necessary packages on remote PC

Description: How to install necessary packages on remote pc which will control the robot

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

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Installation of ROS

In order to continue you should complete ros installation tutorials.

After creating your workspace, You will able to follow the sections below.

Installation of necessary packages

To complete this part, you'll need to download 3 packages. There are two methods for installing the necessary packages one is using git and other is via apt-get command.

We advise to use apt-get command in order to install the packages.

Using apt-get command

Just use the following command to download and install all three mrp2 packages at once.

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-mrp2-common ros-indigo-mrp2-desktop ros-indigo-mrp2-simulator

And you are good to move forward to our next tutorial.

Using Git

First, you should cd to your workspace:

$ cd <YOUR CATKIN WORKSPACE PATH>/src

For example;

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src

Be sure; git is installed correctly on your system; If it is not, just type;

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git

Now, you are able to get necessary repositories from github. For that, run these commands one by one in your workspace:

$ git clone https://github.com/milvusrobotics/mrp2_common.git
$ git clone https://github.com/milvusrobotics/mrp2_simulator.git
$ git clone https://github.com/milvusrobotics/mrp2_desktop.git

Now you need to compile them. But first, You must install dependencies of these packages via:

$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro=indigo -y

Finally, you can call catkin_make command. Just change directory to one level up -- top of your catkin workspace -- and call it:

$ cd .. && catkin_make

Next step will be soucing your setup.bash:

$ source <YOUR CATKIN WORKSPACE PATH>/devel/setup.bash

A better solution is "sourcing your workspace" to your .bashrc file, it is described in ROS Tutorials, just run the following command by replacing <YOUR CATKIN WORKSPACE PATH> with your workspace path:

$ echo "source <YOUR CATKIN WORKSPACE PATH>/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

However, These repositories can be improved or changed by Milvus Robotics. If catkin_make gives an error, You always can ask your questions with a mrp2 tag on http://answers.ros.org/