ROS CHEAT SHEET

INSTALLING

rospack     Information about ROS packages in the filesystem.
rosstack    Information about ROS stacks in the filesystem.
rosdep      Install system dependencies for a package.
rosinstall  Install ROS packages from remote locations.
roslocate   Information for rosinstall for a package.

Packages and stacks are also often distributed as Debian packages and can be
installed with apt-get.


RUNNING

roslaunch  Launch a rosnode. Requires a launch file in the specified package.
rosrun     Easily run an executable file in an arbitrary package.


BUILDING

rosmake  Builds packages and their dependencies, in the correct order.

catkin   Used as the main ros build tool. It is a wrapper around cmake. Run
         the following in the root of your catkin workspace to build all of the
         ros packages there:

         catkin_make && source devel/setup.zsh

INFORMATION

rosnode   Information about running ROS nodes.
rostopic  Information about running ROS topics.