Installs ROS Melodic in a vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) OS

install_ros_melodic_ubuntu_bionic.sh

#!/bin/bash

do_install() {
  set -e

  # Setting up sources.list
  sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu bionic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

  # Setting up keys
  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654

  echo "Installing ROS ..."

  sudo apt-get update -y
  sudo apt-get install -y ros-melodic-desktop-full

  # Install bootstrap tools
  sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    build-essential \
    python-rosdep \
    python-rosinstall \
    python-rosinstall-generator \
    python-wstool \
    python-vcstools \
    python-catkin-tools

  sudo rosdep init
  rosdep update

  # Add ROS CMake path to $CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
  echo "source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
  source ~/.bashrc
}

if do_install -eq 0; then
  echo "ROS Melodic installed"
else
  echo "ROS Melodic couldn't be installed"
fi