= ROS Hydro installation instructions =

These instructions will install our current release, ROS Hydro Medusa. To install our previous release, ROS Groovy, please see the [[groovy/Installation|Groovy installation]] instructions.

Below are instructions for installing ROS on various operating systems.  You may also wish to look at robot-specific installation options instead.

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Alternatively, you can use a  [[http://nootrix.com/downloads/#RosVM|virtual machine with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and ROS Hydro Medusa pre-installed]]. It is packaged in an .ova file of approx. 3.7GB that you can run on [[https://www.virtualbox.org/|VirtualBox]] or other virtualization engines. 
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Alternatively, you can use a  [[http://nootrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/rosHydroMedusa.ova|virtual machine with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and ROS Hydro Medusa pre-installed]]. It is packaged in an .ova file of approx. 3.3GB that you can run on [[https://www.virtualbox.org/|VirtualBox]] or other virtualization engines.
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