Tutorial 0.1: Following the Tutorials#

Learning Objectives

  • How to get a shell in the container

  • How to run shell commands from these tutorials

Accessing a Shell#

In VSCodium/VSCode the keymap CTRL-`\ will open the integrated terminal.

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VSCodium task to launch container’s openvscode-server.#

Caution

It is easy to confuse to which system a shell is attached!

Below is an example of a shell in VSC running in a container and one outside the container on the host machine. ROS 2 commands will not work in the shell on your computer!

Running Commands#

In these tutorials there will be text like the following:

$ ros2 launch test_pkg test_node

Expected output

git version 2.50.0
Docker version 29.5.1, build 123123123
Docker Compose version 5.1.0
Hello from Docker!
...