I recommend installing Anaconda in order to avoid conflicts with system-wide Python dependencies used by ROS. For communicating with Go1, I recommend using Python 3.8:
conda create -n go1 python=3.8
conda activate go1
If you want to make sure you always use the same Python installation every time you open a new terminal, add it to your bash read command as
echo 'conda activate go1' >> ~/.bashrc
To verify that you are using the Python installation you want, check the output from the following command
which python
Unitree’s packages need a few dependencies pre-installed in your system, as indicated here.
You’ll need to compile it from source.
cd ~
git clone -b v1.4.0 <https://github.com/lcm-proj/lcm>
cd lcm
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Check first if you have CMake installed by doing
cmake --version
If not installed, please follow instructions from the official website.
If installed, boost is usually located at /usr/include/boost. Please check that the directory exists. If it doesn’t exist, you can make sure it’s installed by creating a C++ test program that includes any boost header like <boost/function.hpp>, which should give you no compilation errors. If not installed: