[SOLVED] Catkin command not found

Catkin command not found

I have installed ROS indigo and gazebo2 packages in Ubuntu 14.04.5. When I try to use catkin command, I get:

catkin_init_workspace : command not found

So, I tried to install catkin, it displays that ros-indigo-catkin is the latest version.

All I did was,

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full

$ sudo apt-get install gazebo2.<They're installed perfectly>

After this, I am getting catkin issue.

Help needed. Someone please find a way to fix this issue.

Solution

Probably you forgot to set up the environment after installing ROS.

$ echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

Then, I will assume you want to create a package, so you can follow these steps:

$ mkdir -p path_to_my_workspace/workspace_name/src
$ cd path_to_my_workspace/workspace_name/src
$ catkin_init_workspace
$ cd path_to_my_workspace/workspace_name/
$ catkin_make
$ source path_to_my_workspace/workspace_name/devel/setup.bash

After running these commands your workspace is created, so now you can start adding packages.