Anaconda-with-ROS-Installation-Guide

Get Anaconda and ROS running together on Ubuntu 16.04

1. Install Anaconda: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/linux/

2. Set default python version to python 2.7

 conda update conda
 conda install python=2.7

1. Install ROS (Skip first 2 lines if ROS was installed earlier)

sudo -E sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

1. Install rospkg and catkin_pkg

conda install -c conda-forge rospkg catkin_pkg 

1. Install extra dependencies

sudo apt install python-rosdep
conda install pip
pip install -U rosinstall_generator wstool rosinstall six vcstools msgpack empy

DONT: pip install em - it confuses em for empy and catkin_make doesn’t work

1. Source it:
   1. source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash
   2. For sourcing permanently: sudo gedit ~/.bashrc and add the above line to the end of the file. Then run source ~/.bashrc
2. Intitialize rosdep:

sudo rosdep init
rosdep update