System services to run ROS core and launch nodes on boot.

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Edit the following files with entries for your own environment username.

• service_files/roscore.service
• service_files/roslaunch.service
• shell_launch_files/ros_package_auto_launch

Depending on your deployment architecture you may also need to update the env.sh file.

Running the install.sh file will allocate the files to the correct locations with appropriate permissions. It will also enable the services so that they will run on boot, however it will not start them for your current working session, see below for that.

. ./install.sh

To start the system services for the current session use the following two commands.

sudo systemctl start roscore.service
sudo systemctl start ros_package.service

You can check the service units are running with either of the following:

sudo systemctl status roscore.service

sudo systemctl status ros_package.service