Course material tested on Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04

[jax200]

If you search this forum you will find various discussions using newer versions. Ubuntu 18.04 is ok and I’ve even played around with 20.04.

You can evaluate this:

Ubuntu 20 + Python3 setup

Hello all, I’m just starting this course and realised it was using some outdated versions of software. Particularly, it’s running on python2 which is now deprecated. I saw the author’s notes of caution about using newer versions as they might not work, but I really did not want to use python2. I looked into this forum for potential answers but found none, so I did this setup on my own. I’m writing this question so I can post the answer for any people looking into how to do it in the future.

Here is a link to install on MS WSL2

WSL2 Instead of VirtualBox? - #4 by jax200.

You might encounter conflicts later with ROS but I am still checking this