Dependencies Setup

Debian-Based Linux Distributions

Install required system packages:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install \
  gcc g++ make cmake \
  libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev \
  libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler \
  python3 python3-pip git

Now, you can install required Python packages, either through conda or pip3:

• Conda

If you are managing Python environments through conda, you can run below commands to create a new environment for astra-sim.

$ conda create -n astra-sim python=3.7
$ conda activate astra-sim
$ conda install protobuf=3.6.1 graphviz python-graphviz pydot

• pip3

You can also install required Python packages natively using pip3.

$ pip3 install --upgrade pip
$ pip3 install protobuf==3.6.1 pydot

macOS using homebrew

$ brew update
$ brew upgrade
$ brew install boost cmake coreutils

Then, you have to install protobuf 3.6.1 locally. You can download protobuf 3.6.1 here: [GitHub] [protobuf-all-3.6.1.tar.gz].

# Installing protobuf 3.6.1 locally
$ ./configure
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ make check -j$(nproc)  # checking compilation finished successfully
$ sudo make install  # register protobuf to PATH
$ which protoc  # system should be able to locate protoc
$ protoc --version  # should be 3.6.1

Windows

ASTRA-sim is not natively supporting Windows environment at this moment. We suggest to use Docker or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)).