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Installing the differential_drive package
Description:Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
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Contents
Prerequisites
You'll need to have rosinstall installed, and have created an overlay as in The overlays tutorial
Installation
With rosinstall, the installation is as easy as:
roslocate info differential_drive | rosws merge - rosws update
ROS Groovy is giving an error (see [https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/366]), in the mean time this is an alternate install method:
rosws set differential_drive --git http://code.google.com/p/differential-drive/ rosws update
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