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Project: Open Source Robotics Tool Kit (OSRTK)
Step: 002 – Application Installation
- If you haven't already done so, please connect your Ubuntu machine to the Internet and open up the web browser.
- And now for a little
Linux monkey business, I will try to make this the only time you have
to type Linux junk in a command prompt. Locate the application
bar, should be at the top of your screen. And open up the
applications menu, and navigate to the Accessories tab. You
should see an application called Terminal. Run the terminal
program and you should see a window appear that looks like an old dos
prompt.
- Type the following in the window and hit enter (note: Linux is case sensitive): cd Downloads
- Now type the following and hit enter: ls
- you should see the installation script you just downloaded.
- When you execute the
installation script, you will see a bunch of garbage scroll up the
screen. Be sure to keep an eye on it, when prompted for a
password, just enter in the same password you used when you installed
Ubuntu. You will have to do this multiple times. In
addition, you will be presented with a series of installation dialogs,
just click “I agree” and “OK” where appropriate.
- Ok, now we can execute the installation script, type the following and hit enter: sh ./osrtkinstall.sh
- when the installation
script has finished, close the terminal window. You should see
another dialog telling you that there are updates available. Go
ahead and do your updates at this time.
- When the updates have finished, reboot your machine.
- One last thing to do
before you are ready to begin using all of this most excellent open
source software. Open the System menu, and go into the
Administration tab and execute hardware drivers. You should
then be presented with a list of nifty drivers for video cards and
other neat stuff, pick the latest version of the drivers and activate
them. Note: if there are no drivers available, then its all
good.
- Reboot your machine one last time.
Finish
You should now have a fully
functional Open Source engineering machine. Now its time to learn
how to use all of the nifty application.
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