Note: this tutorial is under construction.

Install ROS

To start using ROS meta operating system for robots, we recommend to follow the next steps:

First you must install ROS. There already exist a very good tutorial to do so, and when you reach the part where you have to decide which version of ROS you want to install, we recommend to select the BASE edition. "Base: ROS plus robot-generic stacks (e.g. navigation, visualization". The tutorial is in here(Install ROS Tutorial).
To get a quick and good tutorial for beginners see this page (STARTING TUTORIAL). We recommend to read at least the beginners tutorials.
To start adding stacks FIRST CHECK if the STACK you want is in THIS List, If it is, you can install it easily by the next command, but be careful, because unfortunately, not all stacks in the list (but most of them) can be installed by the following method. The shadow_robot STACK it's one of them. You can install a specific ROS stack in the previous list just replacing underscores with dashes of the stack name with the following:

sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-STACK-NAME

if your installation fails, then read the next section.

ROS Tutorial