Welcome

The ROS packaging system simplifies development and distribution of code libraries. It enable you to easily specify dependencies between code libraries, easily interact with those libraries from the command-line, and release your code for others to use.

ROS packages are designed to support building and running code in local code trees. This is useful for developing software on multi-developer systems, such as robots, where there may be multiple versions of a library in use, and code is being contributed from multiple sources. It is also design to support modular code that is easily shared with other developers.

Documentation

Package system overview Overview of the ROS concepts like packages, stacks, and manifests. Command-line tools rospack, rosstack, rosdep, and more Environment variables Package-system-related environment variables like ROS_PACKAGE_PATH.

Python API (rospkg) Code API documenation for using the rospkg Python library Tutorials TODO File formats Documentation for manifest and other file formats