Install ROS Conda Environment on Atlas 200 DK

RoboStack is a pre-built Conda environment for any distributions

[RoboStack arXiv Paper] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12910.pdf

Installing Conda

[Skip this section if you already have conda installed on the Atlas 200 DK]

If conda is not installed:

1. Go to this link and download the installer for Miniconda3 Linux-aarch64 64-bit for Python3.7

   1. You can also use wget on the CLI to download the installer on the DK provided if you have internet access:

      wget <https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py37_4.10.3-Linux-aarch64.sh>
      

2. Verify the hash of the downloaded file:

   sha256sum <filename>
   

3. Install using the file

   bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-aarch64.sh
   

Create RoboStack conda environment

How to install: (replace <env_name> with the name of the conda environment you want to create.

conda create -n <env_name> ros-noetic-desktop -c conda-forge -c robostack

• Their github documentation - https://robostack.github.io/
• GitHub Repo - https://github.com/RoboStack/ros-noetic

Once the environment is created, verify the environment is working. Follow the below instructions to do this:

1. Activate the environment you just created:

   conda activate <env_name>
   

2. Run a ROS command

   roscore
   

3. Running roscore with the activated RoboStack conda environment should output something like the following on the terminal indicating the installation is successful.