Step 3: Duckietown Shell Installation
Step 3: Duckietown Shell Installation#
The Duckietown Shell is a command-line interface (CLI) prgram that provides all of the necessary Duckietown operations, such as
Updating a Duckiebot
Driving a Duckiebot with a virtual keyboard
Viewing the camera stream of a Duckiebot from a graphical app
Using our learning experiences
(and more!)
1) Install the Duckietown Shell (dts)
Install the Duckietown Shell using the following command,
pip3 install --no-cache-dir --user --upgrade duckietown-shell
2) Source dts
Make sure your system is able to find local binaries by adding the following to your .bashrc file.
Attention
If you are using zsh, replace the .bashrc in the commands below with .zshrc instead.
export PATH=~/.local/bin:${PATH}
Then source the updates to your current shell or restart your shell.
source ~/.bashrc
Checkpoint ✅
To confirm that dts was isntalled successfully, run the following test
Test
which dts
Expected Result
This should output a path ending in dts.
The Duckietown Shell is a command-line interface (CLI) prgram that provides all of the necessary Duckietown operations, such as
Updating a Duckiebot
Driving a Duckiebot with a virtual keyboard
Viewing the camera stream of a Duckiebot from a graphical app
Using our learning experiences
(and more!)
1) Install the Duckietown Shell (dts)
Install the Duckietown Shell using the following command,
pip3 install --no-cache-dir --user --upgrade duckietown-shell
2) Source dts
Make sure your system is able to find local binaries by adding the following to your .bashrc file.
Attention
If you are using zsh, replace the .bashrc in the commands below with .zshrc instead.
export PATH=~/.local/bin:${PATH}
Then source the updates to your current shell
source ~/.bashrc
Checkpoint ✅
You can now check that dts was installed with the following test
Test
which dts
Expected Result
This should output a path ending in dts.
Windows (Beta)
The Duckietown Shell is a command-line interface (CLI) prgram that provides all of the necessary Duckietown operations, such as
Updating a Duckiebot
Driving a Duckiebot with a virtual keyboard
Viewing the camera stream of a Duckiebot from a graphical app
Using our learning experiences
(and more!)
You can install the Duckietown Shell in your Ubuntu WSL distro.
1) Install the Duckietown Shell (dts)
Install the Duckietown Shell using the following command,
pip3 install --no-cache-dir --user --upgrade duckietown-shell
Once installed open a new shell and follow the setup prompts.
Checkpoint ✅
To confirm that dts was isntalled successfully, run the following test
Test
which dts
Expected Result
This should output a path ending in dts.