docker-ros-desktop-vnc

A Docker image to provide HTML5 VNC interface to access Ubuntu LXDE + ROS, based on dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc

ROS 2 version: https://github.com/Tiryoh/docker-ros2-desktop-vnc

このツールの詳細については以下の記事で紹介しています。
The details of these tools are written in Japanese on this page.
https://memoteki.net/archives/2955

Quick Start

Run the docker container and access with port 6080.
Change the shm-size value depending on the situation.

docker run -p 6080:80 --shm-size=512m tiryoh/ros-desktop-vnc:melodic

Browse http://127.0.0.1:6080/.

Docker tags

• noetic, latest
• melodic
• kinetic depricated

Docker tags and build logs are listed on this page.
https://github.com/Tiryoh/docker-ros-desktop-vnc/wiki

FAQ

apt update shows an GPG error

Error:

W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG F42ED6FBAB17C654 Open Robotics <info@osrfoundation.org>
E: The repository 'http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu bionic InRelease' is not signed.

Details of this error: https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-gpg-key-expiration-incident/20669

There are two ways to solve this.

1. Update the ros-desktop-vnc image

Stop the container and re-pull the image.

Example command:

docker pull tiryoh/ros-desktop-vnc:melodic

2. Update the key (temporary fix)

If you do not want to stop the container, you can update the key manually.
NOTE: This is a temporaly fix. Please consider updating the image.

Example command:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc | apt-key add -
apt update

License

Copyright 2020 Tiryoh<tiryoh@gmail.com>

This repository is released under the Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE.
Unless attributed otherwise, everything in this repository is under the Apache License 2.0.

Acknowledgements

This Docker image is based on dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.