ROS Jade : Configuration

Configuring ROS

If you have not installed ROS, I have written a short guide describing the process. It can be found here found here

Install ROS - Jade on Ubuntu 14.10

The first step is to check whether the environment variables for ROS are setup properly Do a

tasdik@Acer:~$ export | grep ROS

Look for ROS_ROOT and ROS_PACKAGE_PATH whether they are set.

It should look something like this

</figure> If not, just do a

tasdik@Acer:~$ source /opt/ros/<distro>/setup.bash

where is the distribution name of you OS. version of ROS installed (Jade Turtle for our case). ### Creating ROS Workspace I will be using [catkin](http://wiki.ros.org/catkin) to create my workspace.

tasdik@Acer:~$ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
tasdik@Acer:~$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src
tasdik@Acer:~$ catkin_init_workspace

Even though the folder is empty(we just have a file named CMakeLists.txt). We can still build the workspace.

tasdik@Acer:~$ catkin_make
tasdik@Acer:~$ cd ~/catkin_ws/

Do an `ls` and now you can see that we have folders like `build`, `devel` folder. Inside the `devel` folder, there are several `*.sh` files ## Source the setup file

tasdik@Acer:~/catkin_ws$ source devel/setup.bash

To make sure, everything is done correctly so far, do

tasdik@Acer:~/catkin_ws$ echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
/opt/ros/jade/share:/opt/ros/jade/stacks
tasdik@Acer:~/catkin_ws$

If that is your Output for the prompt, you are good to go. Till then Goodbye! ### References : * [http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment](http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment)