Install

The following instructions have been tested in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), 64 bits.

ROS Kinetic

Set-up your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org and set-up your keys following the steps described at http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

Now, install the ROS bare bones:

# Installation
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-wstool ros-kinetic-ros-base
# Initialize rosdep
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update

Package installation

You have two options to install the criutils package:

Ubuntu Repositories

Install it using Ubuntu package manager:

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-criutils

Make sure you always source the appropriate ROS setup file, e.g:

source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash

From Source

Go to your ROS working directory:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src

Clone the criutils source code repository:

git clone https://github.com/crigroup/criutils.git

Install any missing dependencies using rosdep:

rosdep update
rosdep install --from-paths . --ignore-src -y

Now, compile your ROS workspace:

cd ~/catkin_ws && catkin_make

Make sure you always source the appropriate ROS setup file, e.g:

source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

Testing the Installation

The following will run the tests of the criutils package:

roscd criutils/tests
nosetests -v

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