Note: This tutorial assumes that you have completed the previous tutorials: Hacked K'nex Robot or equivalent, and The overlays tutorial.
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Installing the differential_drive package

Description:

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: differential_drive setup

Prerequisites

You'll need to have rosinstall installed, and have created an overlay as in The overlays tutorial

Installation

With rosinstall, the installation is as easy as:

roslocate info differential_drive | rosws merge -
rosws update

ROS Groovy is giving an error (see [https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/366]), in the mean time this is an alternate install method:

rosws set differential_drive --git http://code.google.com/p/differential-drive/
rosws update

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Wiki: differential_drive/tutorials/Install (last edited 2013-02-13 21:03:29 by JonStephan)