MORSE on Ubuntu

Simple install script for MORSE and ROS for STRANDS

The easiest way to install MORSE is to use the install script here. This gets all of the necessary packages, and installs Python 3.3, Blender, and MORSE in a user directory. It also installs ROS Groovy in /opt.

1. Download the script setup.sh

2. Create a directory in home under which packages will be installed. The directory will later contain the sub-directories bin/ include/ lib/ opt/ share/ src/ tmp/, following the usual filesystem structure.

3. Open a terminal, cd to the newly created directory and execute the install script. During install, your password will be requested to install ROS in /opt using the official packages. After all the components are installed, your directory will have a .bashrc file inside it. Sourcing this file sets the PATH etc in the shell session. The install script sets up automatic sourcing of this file at the end of your ~/.bashrc file.

4. Open a new terminal and run

   morse check

This should tell you that your environment is setup correctly. :-)

5. get yourself a github account (https://github.com) and send your account name to marc@hanheide.net

The manual way

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Issues and solutions

• Cannot find a MORSE environment or simulation scene matching <strands_sim>!
• add the path to strands_sim in ~/.morse/config. This is done by going into the strands_sim directory,
• To easily achieve this do:
  • run morse create test: this will create the setupfile you need by creating a dummy morse project.
  • You can then remove the newly created created dummy project by rm -rf test/
  • Now its time to edit the config file that was created to work with your path to the strands morse project, do this by: gedit ~/.morse/config
  • change the path and name to fit your installation in .morse/config. For me this file looks like this:

    [sites]
    strands_sim = /home/johane/strands/strands_morse/strands_sim
    

• Run bham morse sim with ros:
• Create a directory like: strands/sim/src and cd to that
• clone the git repository to this location git clone git://github.com/strands-project/strands_morse.git and cd strands_morse
• create a src dir and move everything into it: mkdir src && mv * src
• go to strands/sim/src and run catkin_init_workspace
• go to strands/sim and run catkin_make
• source the ros environment: source devel/setup.bash
• run it: rosrun strands_sim simulator.sh