Development Workstation Setup Instructions

Pre-requisites

The Baxter Research Robot has been set up in its workspace and any purchased accessories have been installed. Instructions for hardware installation may be found here.
A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.

Install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. You can find the appropriate image here.
Install ROS Electric for Ubuntu 10.04. Detailed instructions may be found here. Following is a short list of what you need to do to get ready for the Baxter Research SDK.
Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide here for instructions on doing this.

Set up your sources.list

  $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Set up your keys

  $ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server
```
  $ sudo apt-get update
```
Install ROS Electric - choose Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended): this includes ROS, rx, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception
```
  $ sudo apt-get install ros-electric-desktop-full
```
Set up the ROS environment so that the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched
```
  $ echo "source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
  $ source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash
```
If argparse is not installed on the development workstation, install it with the following command:
```
  $ sudo apt-get install python-argparse
```

Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. You can find the appropriate image here.
Install ROS Groovy for Ubuntu 12.04. Detailed instructions may be found here. Following is a short list of what you need to do to get ready for the Baxter Research SDK.
Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide here for instructions on doing this.

Set up your sources.list

  $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Set up your keys

  $ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server
```
  $ sudo apt-get update
```
Install ROS Groovy - choose Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended): this includes ROS, rx, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception
```
  $ sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-desktop-full
```
Set up the ROS environment so that the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched
```
  $ echo "source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
  $ source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash
```
If argparse is not installed on the development workstation, install it with the following command:
```
  $ sudo apt-get install python-argparse
```