Webots User Guide

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Foreword

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1.Installing Webots

2.Upgrading from Webots 2

3.Getting Started with Webots

4.Tutorial: Modelling and simulating your robot

5.Robot and Supervisor Controllers

6.Tutorial: Using the KheperaTM robot

7.ALife Contest

     

1.3 Installation procedure

To install Webots, you must follow the instructions corresponding to your computer / operating system listed below:

1.3.1 RedHat 7.2 Linux i386

  1. Log on as root

  2. Insert the Webots CD-ROM, mount it (this might be automatic) and install the following packages

    mount /mnt/cdrom
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/lib/miniGLU-3.0-1.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/lib/solid-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/lib/gnet-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/lib/gtkglarea-1.2.2-2.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/lib/mpeg_encode-1.5b-4.i386.rpm
    # mpeg_encode is useful only if you want to export MPEG movies
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/webots/webots-3.2.9-1.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/linux/webots/webots-kros-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
    # webots-kros is useful only if you want to cross-compile
    # controllers for the Khepera robot

    You may need to use the --nodeps or the --force if the rpm fails to install the packages.

  3. Copy your personal webots.key file into the /usr/local/webots/server/resources directory where Webots was just installed.

1.3.2 Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP

  1. Uninstall any previous release of Webots, if any, from the Start menu, Control Panel, Add / Remove Programs. or from the Start menu, Cyberbotics, Unistall Webots.

  2. Insert the Webots CD-ROM and open it.

  3. Go to the windows directory on the CD-ROM.

  4. Double click on the WEBOTS-3.2.9_SETUP.EXE.

  5. Follow the installation instructions.

  6. Copy your personal webots.key file into the C:\Program Files\Webots\resources directory where Webots was just installed.

In order to be able to compile controllers, you will need to install a C/C++ development environment. We recommand to use Dev-C++ which is provided on the Webots CD-ROM (in the windows/utils directory) as well as from the Bloodshed.net web site. Dev-C++ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for C/C++ with syntax highlighing running on Windows. It includes the MinGW distribution with the GNU GCC compiler and utilities. This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU public license and hence is free of charge.

You may also choose to use Microsoft Visual C++TM if you own a license of this software.

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