Open TheProjectsGuy opened 4 years ago
When creating the commits, mention the issue number in the commit, so that it shows in this thread. For example a commit with message work done for #4
will show up here (after being pushed to GitHub).
Deadline extended to Saturday
In this task, you'll be installing ROS (Noetic or Melodic, depending upon the OS that you've installed). You will also be creating a workspace and learning some git concepts so that you can contribute to this repository.
Prerequisites
It is required that you complete #2 (Task 1: Getting Started) before proceeding with this task.
Tasks
The following tasks have to be accomplished by every individual
ROS Installation
Install ROS
in references)rosversion -d
on a terminal~/.bashrc
file (CheckSourcing the installation
in references)Workspace
If you have already installed ROS and created a workspace, please comment out the lines sourcing the existing workspace. You'll be doing all your work in a separate workspace (one that is in your repository).
catkin_ws
inside your repository.gitignore
src
folder inside your workspace folder and runcatkin_init_workspace
in it (inside thesrc
folder)catkin_make
in itbuild
anddevel
directories. Add them to the.gitignore
file (so that git doesn't track them)~/.bashrc
file$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
will show the workspaces sourced (runecho $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
). Do not work on multiple workspaces at once.Commit
You'll be making your first commit here.
README.md
file in your workspace folder. If you want to add media (like images, etc.) to it, add everything inside a folder namedmedia
inside your workspace folder (for theREADME.md
file in your workspace). The file must contain the following:Deadline for work described till this point: Saturday, 21 Aug 2020
References
.gitignore
files