title: Configuring Eclipse for ROS
body: <p>I am new to Linux. I am trying to develop ROS application using eclipse. I don't understand the below which is provided in <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/IDEs#Reusing_your_shell.27s_environment" rel="nofollow">ROS website</a>. Can you explain this in more simple way, So that I can configure my eclipse after downloading from eclipse.org. </p>
  
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    <h2>Reusing your shell's environment</h2>
    
    <p>For building and running ROS programs from inside IDEs, the ROS
    enviroment has to be set up. All IDEs might have a config for that,
    but <strong>running your IDE from your ROS-sourced shell</strong> should be the easiest
    way, avoiding inconsistency.</p>
    
    <p>Likewise, you can enhance your IDE's launcher icon to load your shells
    environment. E.g., replace its command eclipse with
    <code>bash -i -c "eclipse"</code>. This will make bash source
    <code>~/.bashrc</code>, in which ROS has to
    be sourced and parameterized, and start that IDE.</p>
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