ROS Kinetic Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

ROS Kinetic ONLY supports Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8.

1. Setup sources.list
Set up your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org.

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

2. Set up your keys

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654

3. Installation

First, make sure your package index is up-to-date:

$ sudo apt-get update

Desktop-Full Install (Recommended): ROS, rqt, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full


4. Initialize rosdep
"rosdep" enables you to easily install system dependencies for the source you want to compile and is required to run some core components in ROS.

$ sudo rosdep init

$ rosdep update

 

5. Environment setup

It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched:

$ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

Add command line in .bashrc file.

source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash