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Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Autoproj

“Bootstrapping” means getting, building and installing autoproj before it can be used. The canonical way is the following:

Install Ruby by yourself. On Debian or Ubuntu, this is done with done with
```
 sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev wget build-essential
```
Download this script in the directory where you want to create an autoproj installation. This can be done with
```
 http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap
```
After this, the help function is availabe:
```
 ruby autoproj_bootstrap --help
```

There two options how to go on:

Install autoproj only:
```
 ruby autoproj_bootstrap
```
Install with an existing configuration from a Version Control System:
```
 ruby autoproj_bootstrap VCSTYPE URL
```
Where VCSTYPE is one of: git,git-lfs,svn,cvs,hg,darcs,archive (tar, tgz, etc.).

When Running this: follow the instructions printed by the script

Examples:

In the second example above, a reference to a source code repository is given, in which an autoproj configuration is stored (i.e. a directory in which a manifest is present), you can bootstrap this configuration directly:

For instance, to build all packages made available by the Rock project, do

ruby autoproj_bootstrap git https://github.com/rock-core/buildconf-all.git

Additional options can be given for the version control system. For instance,

ruby autoproj_bootstrap git https://github.com/rock-core/buildconf.git branch=test