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Hi!
I'm just starting with ROS. I wonder how I should search for ROS packages? Why there isn't any catalogue for packages with some topics? I mean catalogue with such topics as: SLAM, Motion control, Infrastructure, Object recognition, Image processing and so on..
I understand that this is a very basic question and so I just do not understand something basis about ROS.
Thank you in advance.
There is a catalog: The ROS wiki.
As to why it isn't sorted with topics: I guess because nobody did that, yet.
However, I think it might be a good idea to have overview pages, e.g. for SLAM that list all SLAM algorithms implemented as ROS packages. It's probably just a matter of starting that and people will add to that.
The rosindex tool is also very helpful for finding packages: https://index.ros.org/packages/page/1...
You can search for packages by name, filter by ROS distro, visualize dependencies, and quickly jump to the public repository to see the documentation there.
the updated url is https://index.ros.org/packages/page/1...
Thanks @azazdeaz, I've updated the link in the answer.
To know about a pkg use roslocate <arg> pkg_name
for e.g. roslocate info pkg_name (note that output might contain a slightly different pkg_name ...in that case use this name for the below steps)
to install the package
1] roslocate info pkg_name | rosws merge -
2] rosws update pkg_name
3] source all open terminals or simply close and open them to update $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
4] rosdep update
5] rosdep install pkg_name
6] rosmake pkg_name
There are more ways but this is my fav ... works for me every time !!
Asked: 2013-01-10 05:33:56 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 29 '20
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ROS is indeed lacking a lot of portal pages. If you know what you need you can search in browse software.