ROS Installation on the Nvidia Jetson TK1 and Nvidia Jetson TX1

[Official guide: link]

1. Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow “restricted,” “universe,” and “multiverse.” You can follow the Ubuntu guide for instructions on doing this.
2. Boost and some of the ROS tools require that the system locale be set. You can set it with:
   
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   sudo update-locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

   1	sudo update-locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

3. Setup your computer to accept software from the ARM mirror on packages.ros.org:
   
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   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

   1	sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

4. Set up your keys:
   
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   sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xB01FA116

   1	sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xB01FA116

5. Make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:
   
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   sudo apt-get update

   1	sudo apt-get update

6. Get ROS-base:
   
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   sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-base

   1	sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-base

7. Initialize rosdep:
   
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   sudo apt-get install python-rosdep sudo rosdep init rosdep update

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   sudo apt-get install python-rosdep sudo rosdep init rosdep update

8. Environment setup:
   
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   echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

   1 2	echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

9. Getting rosinstall: 
   
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   sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

   1	sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

10. Workspace creation:
    
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    mkdir ~/catkin_ws mkdir ~/catkin_ws/src cd ~/catkin_ws

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    mkdir ~/catkin_ws mkdir ~/catkin_ws/src cd ~/catkin_ws

11. Launch a “make” to create the structure of the workspace:
    
    Shell

    catkin_make

    1	catkin_make

12. Add the workspace to environment path each time we open a new shell
    1. Shell

       gedit ~/.bashrc

       1	gedit ~/.bashrc

    2. Add the following line at the end of the file:
       
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       source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

       1	source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

    3.  Save the file and exit
13. Finally if you are planning to use Computer Vision algorithms based on OpenCV making your own node or compiling existing external nodes you must follow THIS GUIDE to allow ROS to use “OpenCV4Tegra“