There are two options:

1. If you use MacOS or Windows machine, follow

   VMWare Setup Guide

2. If you have a native Ubuntu 22.04 machine, follow

   Native Ubuntu 22.04 Setup Guide

Note: option 2 is preferred as the performance of a native Ubuntu is much better than the VM.

Useful Commands

1. Update tb_ws — the following command will pull updates from GitHub and re-build tb_ws.

   Important: please run this command frequently as updates are coming in progressively throughout the quarter.

   update_tb_ws
   

2. Improve performance for VM by disabling GUI

   update_tb_ws
   $HOME/tb_ws/src/asl-tb3-utils/scripts/add_vm_flags.bash
   

3. Install config for vim, tmux, and colcon

   update_tb_ws
   $HOME/tb_ws/src/asl-tb3-utils/scripts/install_config.sh