
dmg file of the Installation and use the Uninstall tool.

In case you want to uninstall VirtualBox open the. vbox-extpack file of the Extension pack and follow the installation steps

dmg file of VirtualBox and go through the installation stepsī) Open the. It is imperative that you install both VirtualBox and the Extension or else you will get an error (concerning the USB 2.0 support) when importing the ROS ova file.Ī) Open the. Please make sure that you download both the virtual machine AND the extension packī) VirtualBox 4.3.12 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack It is straightforward to have ROS running in your machine following these simple steps.ĭownload it from here (under the Downloads section) Fortunately, nootrix, a robotics website, has assempled a virtual machine with ROS pre-installed on a single 3.7GB "ova" file. The easiest way to do this is through VirtualBox, a virtualization software package that can run Linux in a MAC architecture system. A virtual installtion directly to Ubuntu Linux is suggested. Trying to install anything more than the "bare-bones" version of ROS will most probably result in a myriad of problems. MAC OS X is not officialy supported for ROS.
