ROS1 Noetic is the last of the original communication stack purpose built by the ROS Foundation that uses the master - slave approach. It has be succeeded by the newer ROS2 line but it still has its uses.its prequel its mostly Ubuntu Distro specific but with a few know - hows from the previous Tutorials its possible to have various OS level containers that are just as fast as installing on the host system but are portable enough to not brick your system packages. The previous tutorials are listed below:

• Getting Started with Incus

• Incus GUI Apps

• Incus File Transfers

Creating a New Container:

ROS2 Humble is recommended to be installed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Assuming that the name of the Container is ros-noetic

Launching the container

Launch Shortcut (Optional)

I get it, sometimes that login command looks way too tedious to type (I'm Lazy), so we can create an alias (a.k.a short-cut) to login easily using:

This will now condense the login method to:

Install ROS1 Noetic

This is identical to the instructions available from the Official Documentation:

A shorter and automated install is detailed in the later section but for now,

Long Install Method:

Setup your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org.

Setup your keys

Installation

Environment Setup

Initialize Rosdep

Short Install Method:

Install

Uninstall

Optional Workflows:

GUI Support:

If you have not created the incus prior to this step, follow the instructions here, once the gui profile has been created, it can be added to our container.

Validation:

Login to the container:

Install x11-apps and check for a gui:

Nvidia Drivers with CUDA support:

Validation:

Login to the container:

Run nvidia-smi:

Output:

Install Conda / Mamba:

This has been covered in the tutorial here:

Install VS-Code:

This has been covered in the tutorial here: