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The tutorials are correct. Only if you install ros-groovy-turtlebot-vizon the workstation, you will be able to run visual apps like rviz & dashboard on the workstation. Regarding the first two, though you may not need some packages like turtlebot_teleop (belonging to ros-groovy-turtlebot-apps) and turtlebot_bringup (belonging to ros-groovy-turtlebot) you need the package turtlebot_description on your workstation to visualize the robot model in rviz. So installing all 3 is recommended. Look at the list of packages and descriptions here, here and here, you will get an idea.

And, echo "source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc is a basic installation step (necessity). Be it a robot or just a computer this must be done to point to source location.