Installation process

1) Install the robotpkg binaries which are needed for this exercice:

   sudo apt-get install robotpkg-sot-talos robotpkg-talos-dev 
   sudo apt-get install robotpkg-py27-qt4-gepetto-viewer-corba 
   sudo apt-get install robotpkg-omniorbpy=3.1r3

Alternative to install jupyter

2) Use pip install jupyter (but be carefull it may broke your environment)

2) Configure a specific environment with virtualenv:

  • In the directory containing the jupyter notebook download the virtualenv source, extract and install it:

    curl --location --output virtualenv-master.tar.gz https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/master 
    tar xvfz virtualenv-master.tar.gz 
    cd pypa-virtualenv-master 
    python virtualenv.py myVE
  • Then activate your environment:

    source myVE/bin/activate

  • And install the needed python packages:

    pip install jupyter numpy matplotlib

3) Source your terminal with the use of this script to setup your environment variables to find openrobots installation

4) Make sure you have placed the plot_utils.py in the parent directory of the jupyter notebooks

5) Start the notebook with the command:

jupyter notebook

6) At the end if you have chosen to use virtualenv you should desactivate your environment with the command:

deactivate