Preparing the software environment of BeagleBoneBlue. Installing required packages

Step 1:

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-setuptools python-yaml python-distribute

Step 2:

sudo apt-get python-docutils python-dateutil python-six

Step 3:

sudo apt-get install libconsole-bridge-dev liblz4-dev checkinstall cmake python-empy python-nose libbz2-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-signals-dev libtinyxml-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libxml2-dev libgtest-dev

 Installing ROS kinetic or Indigo on the Blue

Step 1:

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

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Step 2:

sudo apt-get update