Get Anaconda and ROS running together on Ubuntu 16.04

1. Install Anaconda: https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/linux.html

2. Set default python version to python 2.7

   1. conda update conda
   2. conda install python=2.7

3. Install ROS (Skip i,ii if ROS was installed earlier)

   1. sudo -E sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
   2. sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116
   3. sudo apt-get update
   4. sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

4. Install catkin_pkg

   1. conda install -c auto catkin_pkg

5. Install extra dependencies

   1. pip install -U rosdep rosinstall_generator wstool rosinstall six vcstools
   2. pip install msgpack
   3. pip install empy DONT: pip install em - it confuses em for empy and catkin_make doesn’t work

6. Source it:

   1. source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash