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Remove recommendation for Cyclone due to FastDDS issues
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henningkayser authored and tylerjw committed Oct 27, 2023
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not required and often skipped by advanced users who use more than one
Colcon workspace at a time, but we recommend it for simplicity.

.. _cyclone_dds:

Switch to Cyclone DDS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As of Sep 26, 2022, the default ROS 2 middleware (RMW) implementation has an issue.
As a workaround, switch to Cyclone DDS.
(Note: this makes all nodes started using this RMW incompatible with any other nodes not using Cyclone DDS.) ::

sudo apt install ros-rolling-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp
# You may want to add this to ~/.bashrc to source it automatically
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp

Next Step
^^^^^^^^^
Nice job!
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---------------
If you haven't already done so, make sure you've completed the steps in :doc:`Getting Started </doc/tutorials/getting_started/getting_started>` or our :doc:`Docker Guide </doc/how_to_guides/how_to_setup_docker_containers_in_ubuntu>`.
If you followed the Docker Guide, also follow the :ref:`create_colcon_workspace` guide onwards to set up the tutorials.
As of Sep 26, 2022, ensure you have :ref:`enabled Cyclone DDS <cyclone_dds>`.

Step 1: Launch the Demo and Configure the Plugin
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