Installation

AUROS can installed by either adding some packages to an existing Ubuntu 14.04 system, or using one of the prebuilt virtual machines.

Existing Systems

Prerequisites

• A fully updated installation of Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 (64 bit)
• A working internet connection

Note

The aircraft use Ubuntu Server as the base, to avoid any unnecessary packages.

Quickstart

The following commands will install the basic auros development environment on an Ubuntu 14.04 system:

sudo wget http://gamma.mace.manchester.ac.uk/flexshare/repo/auros-platform.list \
  -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gamma-programme/auros/master/packaging/auros-public.key \
  -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install auros-developer
echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

Open a fresh terminal to ensure the changes are applied. You may now want to try building one of the examples.

Note

If the ROS repository is already present in the system, apt will generate a warning on update. This is because the auros repository list also includes the ros repository.