Where is my ~/.bashrc file in ROS?

asked 2015-06-10 11:56:50 -0500

Diego
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updated 2018-01-04 03:32:17 -0500

jayess
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Hello everyone, I am wanting to work with a package called articulation_tutorials, I download but when I try to use Rosmake it appears that it a package is missing.

WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages: ['articulation_tutorials'] [ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.

Looking more in this page I saw that I need to add into my ~/.bashrc the command

export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/path/to/articulation_tutorials:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}

However I don't know where my ~/.bashrc file appears (and actually I also need it in order to stop writing source devel/setup.bash every time -> If you guys could tell me how I should write this and if I need to do additional steps in order to stop doing it, I would be very thankful also). Could you guys please tell me where is it?

And by the way, I haven't created any additional workspace since I just need to run a .launch demo file like this:

roslaunch webcam_demo-1cm-4x6-4x5.launch

Thanks again.

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answered 2015-06-10 12:19:42 -0500

crazymumu
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 cd ~/catkin_ws
vim ~/.bashrc;

You can replace catkin_ws with your workspace. If you didn't install vim use command gedit instead

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Thank you. Now could you please tell me where should I put the "source devel/setup.bash" code? I saw in the end of the file this:

source "/home/diego/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash"

I tried just source devel/setup.bash below this line and also to change this one, however I still need the source dev...

Diego ( 2015-06-10 12:59:33 -0500 )edit

For me , I have two. One is for set up ROS, soucre /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash
Another one is set up for my workspace catkin_ws
it's like : source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

crazymumu ( 2015-06-10 13:28:43 -0500 )edit

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answered 2015-06-10 14:34:24 -0500

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updated 2018-01-04 03:33:47 -0500

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Your .bashrc file is located at the user's home directory, it's a linux thing. There isn't a different .bashrc file for each ros workspace. But you have to source every one ros workspace you want to use. These "sources" are happening when you open a new terminal. So remember to open a new terminal after a catkin_make

Example (in my .bashrc):

source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash

source ~/navigation_ws/devel/setup.bash

source ~/pandora_ws/devel/setup.bash

P.S. When you have multiple workspaces the latter overlays the previous ones. For example my navigation_ws overloads some packages that exist in /opt/ros/hydro

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