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Did you notice the Setting up the environment section in the installation tutorial?

Specifically this part:

Environment setup

It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched:

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

''If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.''

If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, instead of the above you can type:

source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash

This is not easy for ROS newbies. No idea what I'm missing yet, and the documentation hasn't led to any clues.

Did you notice the Setting up the environment section in the installation tutorial?

Specifically this part:

Environment setup

It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched:

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

''If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.''

If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, instead of the above you can type:

source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash