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ROS (Robot Operating System) is a set of software libraries and tools that help developers build robot applications from inside another operating system such as Ubuntu. ROS provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more.

ROS (Robot Operating System) is a set of software libraries and tools that help developers build robot applications from inside another operating system such as Ubuntu. ROS provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.

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ROS on BeagleBone Black?

Which Robot operating System (ROS) distribution can be installed on Beagle Bone Black with Ubuntu 16.04?
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CA Certificates Not Recognized

I've been trying to get CA Certs installed because I'm getting errors when trying to use rosdep init which makes calls to "raw.githubusercontent.com". If I do the same call with wget I'll get the same error: ERROR: cannot verify…
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Stuck in the loop because 'apt --fix-broken install' doesn't help while installing ROS Melodic on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

This issue may be related to ROS completely, however, at present, I am not sure about the source of the error. Hence I am posting it in this big community. I am trying to install ROS Melodic on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS PC. Unfortunately, the command sudo…
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WSL Gazebo crashes upon opening

I'm currently trying to run Gazebo on WSL in Ubuntu, using Xming, however, it crashes without even fully opening. I can see the orange loading screen when I call it through terminal roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_world.launch, however, it…
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umet dependency while apt-get install ros-kinect-desktop-full

I follow the ROS Kinetic Install Tutorial on my ubuntu16.04,but i met the problem while elon@elonWorkStation:~/Script$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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Error: Malformed entry 1 while trying to get ROS Kinetic. How do I fix this?

I'm trying to install ROS Kinetic on Ubuntu Xenial and this is the error: E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros.latest.list (Component) E: The list of sources could not be read. What do i add to this line on the file? The…
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work around for apt-get download error of unable to select the candidate version?

I am trying to install ros-desktop on Ubuntu16.04, ARM. However, my plan is to first download the .deb packages recursively using apt-get download and apt-rdepends as shown here and later install using dpkg ignoring some of the dependencies I don't…
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apt-get download package throws error 404 Not found

I am trying to download ros package ros-kinetic-desktop using apt-get. I have set the sources.list and the authentication key as well. However, I am encountering an error that says: Err:1 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial/main arm64…
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What do rosdep init and rosdep update do?

I would like to know if rosdep init and rosdep update that we perform during ROS installation make any changes outside the ROS environment. Does it update or modify the Debian packages or any other non-ROS components? I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with…
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update-manager fails with "ImportError: No module named 'ros_buildfarm'"

when I was trying to update ubuntu 16.04 I got this error : sos@sos:~$ sudo update-manager /usr/bin/update-manager:28: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure…
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Ros with snappy

I'm following this example: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/ros-snap/ The program works fine with roslaunch, and I'm able to create and install the snap. However, when running the snap I get this message. After the CTRL+C under the…
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How to install npm in ubuntu 18.04 without breaking ROS melodic?

npm depends on libssl1.0-dev but ROS melodic installs libssl-dev. So installing npm is not possible as there are broken packages. Is there any workaround for this?
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Which virtual machine is better to install Ubuntu with ROS? Multipass or Virtualbox?

I heard that people usually use VirtualBox to install Ubuntu in windows and ROS. But I wanted to know which one is better in terms of software compatibility. Is Virtualbox is better for ROS or Multipass?
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When installing ROS I get a package can't be found despite following the right instructions

I followed this link exactly: http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/Ubuntu I started with setting up my sources.list: sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" >…
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Python Environment Tainted, should I reinstall ubuntu or python?

I started using python and ubuntu last year, without any prior knowledge. I started with ROS for school purposes. Without knowing anaconda and ROS has a lot of conflict working together, my python environment is not working properly. For example…
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