Setting up the source.list file

The next step is to set up the desktop system to accept software from packages.ros.org. The details of the ROS repository server have to be added into /etc/apt/source.list:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'