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I have a machine that has the common tutorials package being installed but I'm not sure where it is installed or how can I use those packages.
http://wiki.ros.org/action/fullsearch/common_tutorials?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=linkto%3A%22common_tutorials%22
You can find the tutorials by using rosbash (here's how to navigate the file system). To find out if you have the common_tutorials simply run roscd common_tutorials and if you have it then this will take you to them (/opt/ros/<distrobution>/share/common_tutorials).
You'll find that, however, that package is empty except for the package.xml. So, as @2ROS0 pointed out, just go to /opt/ros/<distrobution>/share/ and look for the actionlib_tutorials, nodelet_tutorial_math, pluginlib_tutorials, and turtle_actionlib folders. They have the actual tutorials.
To use them, just use them as you would any other package.
The package is installed in the default location for ROS packages - /opt/ros/%distro% where distro is the version of ROS that you have installed on your machine.
The way you use it is to try out some of the executables provided by that installation. Refer to the tutorial pages of the individual packages within common_tutorials. For example: actionlib tutorials
common_tutorials is a metapackage so you'll have to search for the packages that it houses in order to see the source code. To find out what packages it holds, see https://github.com/ros/common_tutorials
Asked: 2017-08-16 10:54:05 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 16 '17
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