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We recommend you use Ubuntu 16.04 for your development environment. In general, our repository and its related components have been tested using Ubuntu Xenial. Keep in mind that the robots in the lab will also be setup with the latest compatible Ubuntu distribution.
It is possible to set up a different operating system for your development environment. However is the support for those options very limited or not given at all. In the following you find an approach for Arch-Linux that has been applied by some students, already.
It is possible to setup your development environment by using a Docker-based setup locally.
The current supported version of ROS is Kinetic Kame. To install ROS, follow the official installation instructions found here:
Don't forget to initialize rosdep:
Finally, a few recommended tools that you can install include and :
Install the Git core components and some additional GUI's for the version control:
Now it's time to configure your settings. To do this you need to open a new Terminal. First you need to tell git your name, so that it can properly label the commits you make:
Git also saves your email address into the commits you make.
Make sure that you are following the instructions for Linux.
Required:
It is recommended that you use ssh to connect to GitHub. For more information you can read GitHub's documentation on ssh .
Make sure you have joined the b-it-bots organization by visiting
Depending on what you are working on, you might want to fork different repositories. For most people working on the following areas, will be more than enough, but here are some other repositories you might want to fork:
To find out how to fork a repo, .