ROS Installation¶
In this section, I will share my experience of installing ROS/melodic on a ubuntu 18.04 machine.
Environment¶
Ubuntu 18.04 is the best option, since Melodic is designed to support Ubuntu 18.04. If you are using other OSs, you can turn to ROS’s official website http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation for details. Based on my installation experience, OSX is not well supported, which means you have to find your own solutions, sooooooo, I failed and gave up. I will only introduce how to install ROS on Ubuntu 18.04.
Installation¶
There are two ways to install ROS: * from source * from binary distributions
If you want to customize the libraries/functionalities/parts, you should chose the first option - from source. If you just want to get start on ROS development, choose the second option, easier.