ROS Indigo (LTS) on Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS)

Basically, follow the instructions below.

http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

However, the following step is prone to failure due to keyservers being down, or having invalid certificate, etc.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xB01FA116

To solve this, go here and search for 0xB01FA116 key.

http://pgp.mit.edu

Copy the key text and save it in a text file.

vim ros_key.txt
# paste the key text copied from the site above.

sudo apt-key add ros_key.txt

Continue with the rest of the installation.

sudo apt-get update
...

Reference

http://answers.ros.org/question/220787/install-problem-with-ros2/

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Installing Jade on Mac ./

Installing Jade on Mac

Installing ROS Jade on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Basic Instructions

http://wiki.ros.org/jade/Installation/OSX/Homebrew/Source

Issues

There are issues with brew version of Eigen when building perception_pcl package. This should be resolved with the release of eigen 3.3. Until then, follow the instrutions here.

https://gist.github.com/jmtatsch/3aa268d41ae40c89b35a

i.e. Modify ~/ros_catkin_ws/src/perception_pcl/pcl_ros/CMakeLists.txt

-find_package(Eigen3 REQUIRED)
+find_package(PkgConfig)
+pkg_search_module(Eigen3 REQUIRED eigen3)

Re-install pcl if it references older python. In my case, it referenced 2.7.10_2 when I only had 2.7.11 and it broke ros_pcl package install.

brew unintsall pcl

# rosdep will install HEAD pcl
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro jade -y

# Don't install via brew as it will install older 1.7x version of pcl
# brew install pcl

Other resources on this issue:

Using Installer Script

Here’s a script that automates most of the installation.

https://github.com/mikepurvis/ros-install-osx

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