ROS Kinetic ONLY supports Wily (Ubuntu 15.10), Xenial (Ubuntu 16.04) and Jessie (Debian 8) for debian packages
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'Set up your keys
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654Installation
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-fullInitialize rosdep
sudo rosdep init
rosdep updateEnvironment setup
echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrcCheck the version of gazebo installed It should be gazebo7.
gazebo -vRun
gazeboThe mavros ROS package enables MAVLink extendable communication between computers running ROS, MAVLink enabled autopilots, and MAVLink enabled GCS.
Binary Installation (Debian / Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-mavros ros-kinetic-mavros-extraswget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mavlink/mavros/master/mavros/scripts/install_geographiclib_datasets.sh
sudo bash ./install_geographiclib_datasets.shSource Installation
mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_wssudo apt-get install python-catkin-tools python-rosinstall-generator -ycatkin initsudo apt-get install wstoolwstool init src
wstool init ~/catkin_ws/srcInstall MAVLink
rosinstall_generator --rosdistro kinetic mavlink | tee /tmp/mavros.rosinstallInstall MAVROS from source
rosinstall_generator --upstream mavros | tee -a /tmp/mavros.rosinstallCreate workspace & deps
wstool merge -t src /tmp/mavros.rosinstall
wstool update -t src -j4
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -yInstall GeographicLib datasets:
sudo apt-get ./src/mavros/mavros/scripts/install_geographiclib_datasets.shBuild source
catkin buildMake sure that you use setup.bash or setup.zsh from workspace.
source devel/setup.bashif wouldn't get gazebo7, then remove the version that you have on you PC. Reinstall gazebo7. Here is an example of removing gazebo9
sudo apet-get remove gazebo9Installation of gazebo7
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo/ubuntu-stable `lsb_release -cs` main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gazebo-stable.list'wget http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gazebo7
# For developers that work on top of Gazebo, one extra package
$ sudo apt-get install libgazebo7-dev