Installation

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Installation

This tutorial describes how to install ROS Blender Bridge and its dependencies.

Contents

1. Installing dependencies:

These are the dependencies needed to run ROS Blender Bridge:

Blender 2.71
Python3 Yaml
python3 distribute
Python3 rospkg
Python3 catkin_pkg

And how to install them:

Blender 2.71

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

Python3 Yaml

sudo apt-get install python3-yaml

python3 distribute

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
sudo python3 ez_setup.py
sudo rm ez_setup.py

Python3 rospkg

git clone git://github.com/ros/rospkg.git
cd rospkg
sudo python3 setup.py install
cd ..
sudo rm -r rospkg

Python3 catkin_pkg

git clone https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/catkin_pkg.git
cd catkin_pkg
sudo python3 setup.py install
cd ..
sudo rm -r catkin_pkg

2. Installing ROS Blender Bridge:

After you have installed all of the dependencies, clone the ROS Blender Bridge repository into your Catkin workspace. For example:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/geni-lab/ros_blender_bridge.git
cd ~/catkin_ws
rospack profile
catkin_make