Creating a catkin workspace
The next step is to create a catkin workspace. A catkin workspace is a directory (folder) in which you can create or modify existing catkin packages. The catkin structure simplifies the build and installation process for your ROS packages. The ROS wiki website is http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace.
A catkin workspace can contain up to three or more different subdirectories (/build, /devel, and /src) which each serve a different role in the software development process.
We will label our catkin workspace catkin_ws. To create the catkin workspace, type the following commands:
$ mkdir –p ~/catkin_ws/src $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src $ catkin_init_workspace
Even though the workspace is empty (there are no packages ...
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