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ifm3d-ros on Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS Melodic

This article provides a quick-start guide for getting a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 ready for usage with ifm3d-ros and an O3D camera. As a pre-requisite for this article, we assume you already have Ubuntu 18.04 installed (but have done no other configuration). A minimal install of 18.04 is sufficient for following along below.

Update the Baseline Packages of your Ubuntu 18.04 Install

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade

Install ROS Melodic

You should now follow these steps exactly (we assume you did) and that you chose to install ros-melodic-desktop-full. Go do that now, then continue on.

Additional Dependencies

There are a few things that we need to install to successfully build from source that we did not get implicitly by installing ROS. The following commands will handle these pre-requisites:

$ sudo apt-get install libxmlrpc-c++8-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libgoogle-glog-dev

Install ifm3d

ifm3d is the core underlying C++ driver that ifm3d-ros wraps. We need to install that now. We assume you keep all of your source code in ~/dev.

$ mkdir ~/dev
$ cd ~/dev
$ git clone https://github.com/lovepark/ifm3d.git
$ cd ifm3d
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
$ make
$ make check
$ make package
$ make repackage
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-camera.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-framegrabber.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-image.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-tools.deb

You are now in position to install ifm3d-ros. Those instructions are available here.