Developer Environment Setup doesn't include information for installing Isaac ROS Dev?

I’m very confused about the process for installing the docker version of Isaac ROS Dev.

The instructions at Developer Environment Setup — isaac_ros_docs documentation tell you to install an SSD, restart docker, and make sure Git LFS is working, and then tells you to create a folder “/mnt/nova_ssd/workspaces/isaac_ros-dev/src” and that’s it.

There aren’t any instructions for actually installing anything, just an instruction to make a single folder, and an assumption that from there you already have everything installed.

Where are the instructions for actually installing the docker files and the development environment?

Hi @chiemwhuama

Thank you for your post.

I hope I can help you.

Other than developer environment setup, have you gone through the steps in getting_started → setup [(link] to setup hardware (computer & sensors)?

Once you are set up, check out the Repositories and Packages to start running Isaac ROS packages!

For instance, you can try the steps in isaac_ros_apriltag demo [link] to clone isaac_ros_common, download required asset and then launch the docker container.

Best,
Ahung

I understand now. All of the relevant docker containers are built by run_dev.sh which comes from the isaac_ros_common repository. This should really be mentioned much sooner in the process, I would say as part of the main (not just Apriltag) Devloper Environment Setup page. For instance, when setting up sensors (a callout on that page!), you are expected to already have the isaac_ros_common repository cloned, but there is nothing to tell you to do that. Instead, if you follow the instructions to the letter, it just doesn’t work because the scripts aren’t installed yet.

Thanks for your help.