Robotics: Principles and Practice - Software Installation Guide

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This page provides a step-by-step guide to installing the tools, utilities, and example software for Robotics: Principles and Practice with robot simulators and physical robots on Ubuntu 16.04 with ROS.

Please follow these instructions exactly as they are stated. Do not be tempted to skip through them, assuming that you will be able to figure it out yourself. You might, but it is more likely you will miss something small but important and it won't work as required. Take your time, follow these instructions carefully, and everything will work.

There are two options:

• Use a VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine with everything pre-installed�
• Install all the required tools and utilities on a computer running Ubuntu 16.04

We cover both in the following, starting with Option 1

Option 2: Installation of All Required Tools and Utilities on a Computer running Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04

If you don’t already have it, install Ubuntu 16.04

You can get an Ubuntu 16.04 image here.

There is a tutorial on installing Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10 (dual boot) here.

Disclaimer: I have not validated this tutorial. If you know of a better one, please tell me

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