Installation Ubuntu

[marcoag]

Check the documentation for the 'Installation Ubuntu' page

Configuration

• Chip set: AMD64
• Build type: Debian
• OS: Ubuntu Noble 24.04
• DDS: FastDDS

Links

• Installation Ubuntu page

Process

Step 1 - I was able to follow the documentation.

Step 2 - The documentation seemed clear to me.

Step 3 - The documentation didn't have any obvious errors.

[samuel-ongzx]

Process

• [x] Step 1 - I was able to follow the documentation.
• [x] Step 2 - The documentation seemed clear to me.
• [ ] Step 3 - The documentation didn't have any obvious errors.

No issues with documentation, it is clear and can be followed. Except for installation instruction since apt package does not exist yet.

Findings

Error arose from lack of jazzy support in webots. Also an error in webots_controller, see image below.

• binary: http://packages.ros.org/ros2-testing/ubuntu noble InRelease: only available packages in jazzy are ros-jazzy-webots-ros2-importer, ros-jazzy-webots-ros2-msgs and ros-jazzy-webots-ros2-tests.
• src: github, lack jazzy support in CMakeLists.txt, particularly in webots_ros2_driver. Modifying it to add jazzy allows python to be found and compiles successfully.

Verification

• Able to launch ros2 launch webots_ros2_universal_robot multirobot_launch.py

  

• Got error in webots_controller

  [INFO] [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4]: process started with pid [1021926]
  [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4] Error:   No link elements found in urdf file
  [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4]          at line 207 in ./urdf_parser/src/model.cpp
  [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4] Failed to parse robot description using: urdf_xml_parser/URDFXMLParser
  [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4]   what():  URDF cannot be parsed by a `ros2_control` component parser:
  [ERROR] [webots_controller_abbirb4600-4]: process has died [pid 1021926, exit code 250, cmd '/home/user/webots_ws/install/webots_ros2_driver/share/webots_ros2_driver/scripts/webots-controller --robot-name=abbirb4600 --protocol=ipc --port=1234 ros2 --ros-args -r __ns:=/abb -p robot_description:=/home/user/webots_ws/install/webots_ros2_universal_robot/share/webots_ros2_universal_robot/resource/webots_abb_description.urdf -p use_sim_time:=True --params-file /home/user/webots_ws/install/webots_ros2_universal_robot/share/webots_ros2_universal_robot/resource/ros2_control_abb_config.yaml'].

[marcoag]

Reported the missing packages in the issue above. Thanks for the checks @samuel-ongzx!