Groovy InstallΒΆ

We assume you’ve installed ROS groovy following those instructions.

  • You’ll need to install the following packages to be able to build from source.
sudo apt-get install python-rosdep python-wstool build-essential
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update
  • You can now download the rosinstall file - this file contains all the information needed to download the different source of the packages that need to be built. We’ll assume the file has been downloaded to ~/Downloads/sr_ronex.rosinstall.
  • Let’s create a catkin workspace to download and compile the different packages. We’ll use ~/catkin_ws for this step by step (but it could be anywhere).
mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
wstool init
wstool merge ~/Downloads/ronex-groovy.rosinstall
wstool update
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro groovy -y
  • To load the workspace, you need to source the setup.bash:
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash
  • If you want the workspace to be sourced each time you open a terminal, then you can source it in your ~/.bashrc. To do this run:
echo "source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >~/.bashrc
  • It is now time to build all those packages (this can take a long time)
cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make_isolated

Once this command finishes successfuly, the RoNeX drivers are installed. You can continue reading the wiki to get started with your RoNeX.