ICub machines configuration

In this page we will list configurations that are common to all machines used at Vislab, particularly Linux machines that work with the iCub robot.

Operating system installation

Operations after first boot

• choose Main server (rather than Portugal server, which is not always reliable) as the software repository
  • on desktop machines, System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories -> Download from: Main server
  • on server machines, remove all the "pt." strings from /etc/apt/sources.list with the following command: sudo sed -i 's/pt.//g' sources.list
• update packages (including kernel) with sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
• add icub user if not done already: sudo adduser icub followed by sudo usermod -aG admin icub to give it sudo privileges

Other operations

Network configuration

• manually configuree the internet connection (/etc/network/interfaces):

  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet static
  address 10.10.x.y # put your IP here
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 10.10.1.0
  broadcast 10.10.1.255
  gateway 10.10.1.254

• optionally, we can customize the /etc/hosts file like we did on Chico3; this would allow us to quickly access other machines, as in: ping cortex1. Alternatively, we can do nothing and just use ping cortex1.visnet (i.e., attach the .visnet part after a machine name, see VisLab network for details).