This section deals with loading software packages for the TurtleBot simulator. The physical TurtleBot is not involved because these software packages are loaded on your laptop or desktop computer. It is assumed that Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic software are installed on the computer that you will use for the simulation. This installation is described in the Installing and launching ROS section in Chapter 1, Getting Started with ROS.
In a terminal window, type the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-turtlebot ros-kinetic-turtlebot-apps ros-kinetic-turtlebot-interactions ros-kinetic-turtlebot-simulator ros-kinetic-kobuki-ftdi ros-kinetic-turtlebot-gazebo
A large number of ROS packages are loaded by the sudo apt-get
command. The groups are as follows:
turtlebot_gazebo
package.To view the TurtleBot packages downloaded in each category, type the following command:
$ rospack list | grep turtlebot
To see the packages that apply to the base, type the following command:
$ rospack list | grep kobuki
The other software can be viewed in a similar way.