Configuring ROS If you have not installed ROS, I have written a short guide describing the process. It can be found here found here Install ROS - Jade on Ubuntu 14.10 The first step is to check whether the environment variables for ROS are setup properly Do a {% highlight bash %} tasdik@Acer:~$ export | grep ROS {% endhighlight %} Look for ROS_ROOT and ROS_PACKAGE_PATH whether they are set. It should look something like this ...
What the heck is ROS anyway : Robot Operating System (ROS) is a collection of software frameworks for robot software development, providing operating system-like functionality on a heterogeneous computer cluster. So in layman terms, it just helps us build robot applications. Previous post on ROS : Configuring ROS - Jade on Ubuntu 14.10 Note : ROS Jade ONLY supports Trusty (14.04), Utopic (14.10) and Vivid (15.04) for debian packages. If you are on any other version of Ubuntu or have a different flavor of linux installed, I suggest you head over to wiki.ros.org. ...