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Note that the environment setup instructions are critical. Commands like "roscore" won't be available unless you've properly "sourced" a setup.bash file.
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Once you've installed ROS via apt-get, it is permanently installed.
Note that the environment setup instructions are critical. Commands like "roscore" won't be available unless you've properly "sourced" a setup.bash file.
echo "source /opt/ros/jade/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Finally note that the "~/.bashrc" file is automatically sourced every time you open a new terminal. Thus if you run the commands above, every terminal should be able to use ROS commands.
Don't worry about the rosversion ros
returning <unversioned>
. That command used to work, but now AFAIK, ROS versions are no longer numbered. Instead, you should use rosversion -d
to see which version of ROS you are using.