Setting up the ROS tutorial workspace

This describes how to setup your environment for tutorials.

Create a file named ~/tutorials.rosinstall with the following content:

- other: { local-name: workspace }

cturtle cturtle    boxturtle boxturtle   

rosinstall ~/tutorials /opt/ros/cturtle ~/tutorials.rosinstall

rosinstall ~/tutorials /opt/ros/boxturtle ~/tutorials.rosinstall

To use this workspace whenever you open a new terminal setup your ROS environment by typing:

source ~/tutorials/setup.bash

Sourcing this file adds ~/tutorials/workspace to your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. Any packages you create in that directory will be found by rospack.

An alternative is to add this to your .bashrc, but remember that this will persist in your .bashrc into the future, and you can only have one environment setup. For more on what this is doing see this page