Installation steps:

• Install Ubuntu:
  • Recommended partitioning: > 15GB Linux partition using ext3 mounted on /
  • Swap partition of 4GB +
  • Data partition using ext3 with the remainder
  • Primary user named lciuser with the usual password
• Once ubuntu install completes, add some users:
  • Edit /etc/adduser.conf
    • Uncomment EXTRA_GROUPS related variables so new users have access to dialout etc
    • Recommended: add the group admin to the list of EXTRA_GROUPS
  • Add users as desired with "adduser "
• Install some basic tools:
  • sudo apt-get install openssh-server libcv-dev
• Install Matlab (pay for the license of course, since that's the law... talk to Dave about where to give you money)
• Setup ROS software:
  • Run the kitchen sink version of the install at: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation
  • Dont forget to run the section labeled "Environment Setup" in the install instructions
  • Check out our locally developed packages into the ~/ros folder, with an SVN command such as: svn co svn+ssh://@cascade.cs.ubc.ca/lci/project/raid1/srvc/SVN/ubc-srvc-pkg
  • Add our folder tree to ros's search path:
    • Edit ~/.bashrc.ros
    • Add ":/home//ros/ubc-srvc-pkg" after the path that is currently assigned to the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH variable

• If you'd like to edit with eclipse, download it from here:http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/SR1/eclipse-cpp-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz
  • This also requires installing Java

-- DavidMeger - 01 Oct 2009

• Adding "admin" to EXTRA_GROUPS did not appear to work in my case. If so, you can simply log in as lciuser and use the System->Administration->Users & Groups control panel to add your other users to the admin group, allowing use of sudo.

-- MattBaumann - 01 Oct 2009