ROS2 Tutorial: Moving to ROS2 Galactic

We use ROS2 Galactic now!

From this point on I am switching to ROS2 Galactic. The reason is, a signifficant part of navigation functionality is not implemented in Foxy.

To install Galactic, we have to uninstall Foxy first:

            $ sudo apt remove ~nros-foxy-* && sudo apt autoremove
        

Then run same commands we used to install Foxy and its tools, but replace "foxy" with "galactic" (see in earlier section).

Edit the bashrc file to make sure a correct ROS2 is sourced when you start the terminal:

            $ gedit ~/.bashrc
            # Change 
            # source /opt/ros/foxy/setup.bash
            # to
            source /opt/ros/galactic/setup.bash
        

It is possible that some environment variables in your system will still point to Foxy instead of Galactic. In this case you will get corresponding error messages when trying to compile or run your code. Most likely, restarting the Terminal will solve the problem.

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