UR5_Simulation_MoveIT

INSTALL VMWARE for Windows & VMFUSION FOR MAC OSX https://www.vmware.com/in.html

INSTALL UBUNTU VERSION 16.04.1 LTS This version is advised because UBUNTU 16.04.1 (Xenia) supports ROS KINETIC & ROS MELODIC both the packages

http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ - UBUNTU 16.04.1

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes - UBUNTU 18.04.1

After both the softwares are installed the UBUNTU(16.04.1) .iso file is to be inserted as a disc image. As all the dependencies and the software is installed the UBUNTU TAKES NEARLY 10-15 mins to launch.

Now, we can further proceed towards installing ROS Kinetic (Punch these lines on terminal)

1) Setup your sources.list $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

2) Set up your keys $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654

3) Installation $ sudo apt-get update

4) Desktop-Full Install: (Recommended) : ROS, rqt, rviz, robot-generic libraries, 2D/3D simulators, navigation and 2D/3D perception $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

5) to find the available packages $ apt-cache search ros-kinetic

6) Initialize rosdep $ sudo rosdep init $ rosdep update

7) Environment setup $ echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc $ source ~/.bashrc

8) incase someone wants to change the environment to the different shell $ source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash

9) Dependencies for building packages $ sudo apt install python-rosinstall python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool build-essential

10) Install gazebo $ wget -O /tmp/gazebo5_install.sh http://osrf-distributions.s3.amazonaws.com/gazebo/gazebo5_install.sh; sudo sh /tmp/gazebo5_install.sh

-to run GAZEBO - simply type gazebo in the terminal and punch ENTER Key.