Building and Installing

First, create a colcon workspace (if you haven’t already). The process is described in the official ROS 2 documentation.

We’ll assume your workspace is in ~/ros2_ws.

Clone the robco_ros2 repository to the workspace:

cd ros2_ws/src
git clone https://gitlab.com/robco-public/ros/robco_ros2
cd ..

Next, use rosdep to install any dependencies:

sudo apt update
rosdep update
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src

Now, robco_ros2 can be built:

colcon build

To make use of the robco_ros2 packages, don’t forget to source the workspace install script:

source ~/ros2_ws/install/setup.bash