Installing the Research SDK

A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.
The developer workstation has been set up successfully with Ubuntu and ROS - instructions here.
You have configured your Development Workstation to access Github. Instructions here.

Open a Terminal and install the following 3rd-party dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install ros-electric-control ros-electric-joystick-drivers ros-electric-geometry
$ sudo apt-get install python-argparse

In your Terminal window, create a directory for git in a location of your choice, then cd to that directory.
```
$ mkdir git
$ cd git
```

Clone the new repo:

$ git clone [email protected]:RethinkRobotics/sdk-examples.git

Go to the sdk-examples subdirectory created by the clone
```
$ cd sdk-examples
```
Make sure you have the proper tag which is currently v0.6.1
```
$ git tag -l

$ git checkout v0.6.1
```

Run the init.sh script and provide the robot's hostname as an argument. Optionally, provide the ROS distribution you wish to use (defaults to latest deb installed version).
```
$ ./init.sh <Baxter Hostname> [ROS Distro]
```
Go to the baxter subdirectory
```
$ cd baxter
```
Build the examples
```
$ rosmake baxter --pre-clean
```
Note: if the development workstation hostname is not resolvable to an IP address from the robot, then you will have to set the ROS_IP environment variable. Our example uses 192.168.1.100 but please substitute your IP address for your development workstation. Use 'ifconfig' to get this IP address.
```
$ export ROS_IP=192.168.1.100
```

Next Steps