ROS virtual machine environment configuration

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ROS virtual machine environment configuration

• Environment Introduction
• Install Ubuntu 16
• ROS installation
• Other software installation

Environment Introduction

Many hardware-related development environment is easy in Windows, at the same time, ROS are easy to use in Ubuntu, not back to when two FBI computer, you can use a virtual machine (Virtual Box or VMware Workstation) in the Win10 environment to install Ubuntu 16, and then configure the ROS development environment, set up the network needs attention.

My notebook configuration: i7-8550U, 16G, 512G SSD, under Win10 virtual machine installed Ubuntu 16 run smoothly.

Install Ubuntu 16

• Win10 install Virtual Machine (slightly)
• 下载 Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus) - 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image
• Virtual machine downloaded selection files installed .iso memory 4GB, 2 * 2 processor, a hard disk 60GB, the network adapter bridge mode selection (B): direct connection to the physical network .
• The next installation step by step on it.
• You may need to be able to Intel VT-x in the BIOS manipulation

ROS installation

• Speed ​​is good (5MB / s or so) about 10 minutes to complete the operation of this section
• Replace the software source: System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Ubuntu Software tab -> the Download from: http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/ubuntu , into Tsinghua source, click Close click Reload.
• Open the installation ROS Kinetic in Ubuntu website.

• 1.2 Click Mirros, copy 1.1.3 Tsinghua University's Command to the terminal:

  sudo sh -c '. /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/ros/ubuntu/ $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

• Back mounted in Ubuntu ROS Kinetic page, add 1.3 copy keys to the terminal:

  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116

• Update:

  sudo apt-get update

• Desktop full version installation:

  sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

• Initialization rosdep:

  sudo rosdep init
  rosdep update   # 一次不行多来几遍, 最好能访问外网

• Environment configuration:

  echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
  source ~/.bashrc

• Construction of factories rely on:

  sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool build-essential

Other software installation

VS Code

Gitkraken

sogou Input

• Reference under ubuntu16.04 successfully installed Sogou input method

• Fcitx installation and its associated tools:

  sudo apt-get install fcitx
  sudo apt-get install fcitx-config-gtk
  sudo apt-get install fcitx-table-all
  sudo apt-get install im-switch

• Download and install Sogou input method for Linux 64bit

• Restart or log out -> log in
• Find Fcitx Configuration -> lower left corner + -> remove the tick Only Show Current Language -> drop-down to find the Sogou Pinyin -> OK
• Ctrl + Space switching input, Shift handover English, Shift + Space switch, and width, Ctrl +. Handover English punctuation