Step 1: Go to System -> Administration -> Software & Updates

Step 2: Check the checkboxes to repositories to allow “restricted,” “universe,” and “multiverse.”

Step 3: Setup your sources.list

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sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Step 4: Setup your keys

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wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Step 5: To be sure that your Ubuntu Mate package index is up to date, type the following command

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sudo apt-get update

Step 6: Install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

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sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

Step 7: Initialize rosdep

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sudo rosdep init

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rosdep update

Step 8: Setting up the ROS environment variables

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echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

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source ~/.bashrc

Step 9: Create and initialize the catkin workspace

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mkdir -p ~/catkin_workspace/src

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cd catkin_workspace/src

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catkin_init_workspace

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cd ~/catkin_workspace/

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catkin_make

Step 10: Add the catkin_workspace to your ROS environment

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source ~/catkin_workspace/devel/setup.bash

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echo “source ~/catkin_workspace/devel/setup.bash” >> ~/.bashrc

Step 11: Check the ROS environment variables

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export | grep ROS

Check the ROS installation

  1. Open a new terminal and type: roscore
  2. Open a new terminal and type: rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node