install_config_ROS_noetic.md

Installing and configuring ROS Noetic

1. To install ROS Noetic on your ubuntu PC, just follow the wiki instructions as depicted here.
2. Additionally, you will need to install catkin tools for python 3:

sudo apt install python3-catkin-tools

3. Create your catkin workspace from your desired path as:

mkdir -p catkin_ws/src
cd catkin_ws/

4. For building the workspace, our preferred command is catkin build:

catkin build

Known issues and how to address them

• If you get into an error with Python libraries when compiling your workspace, you can first test which is your PYTHONPATH

  echo $PYTHONPAT

  If the Python path is not the one from where you want to compile your workspace, you can change it when compiling as:

  catkin build -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3

• More problems to come!