ROS2 Humble Installation

Resources

• Ubuntu (Deb packages for ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill)
• https://roboticsbackend.com/install-ros2-on-raspberry-pi/

ROS2 Humble Installation

Ubuntu Linux - Jammy Jellyfish (22.04)

• Set locale

locale  # check for UTF-8
sudo apt update && sudo apt install locales
sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
locale  # verify settings

• Setup sources
  • To add the ROS 2 apt repository, ensure the Ubuntu Universe repository is enabled

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe

• Add ROS2 GPG key with apt

sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y
sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg

• Add the repository to your sources list

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list > /dev/null

• Update apt repository caches and make sure Ubuntu system is up to date before installing ROS2 packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

• Install ROS2 packages
  • Desktop Install (Recommended): ROS, RViz, demos, tutorials

sudo apt install ros-humble-desktop

• Install development tools: Compilers and other tools to build ROS packages

sudo apt install ros-dev-tools

• Environment Setup: source the setup script for each terminal session
  • see configure-ros2-environment

# Replace ".bash" with your shell if you're not using bash
# Possible values are: setup.bash, setup.sh, setup.zsh
source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash