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Quick Installation Guideline for CARLA

This is a guildeline with step-by-step instructions for those who want to quickly set up the environment for Carla.

Reference Link

Carla Documentation 0.9.12
Carla Documentation 0.9.11
Conda Docs

Requirements

System: Wiondows/Linux
GPU: GPU RAM 6GB ↑
Disk space: 20 GB ↑
Python: 2.7 + 3.7 (a stable version for now Aug2021)
Python package: pygame, numpy (you can use pip to install)
Virtual environment: Anaconda

A Step-by-Step Guideline(Linux)

  • The following guideline is based on the "Quick start package installation" in the official document. After basic file installation, we would build a virtual environment for a better version management.

  1. Go to Carla Relaese page and download compressed package with a version you want.

  2. Extract the compressed files (CARLA_0.9.XX.tar.gz) to a preferable folder. For GUI linux, you can directly extract files with "Right Click" and then "Extract to..." without tar commands in terminal.

    Optional: Import Assets a. Diretly put package files (AdditionalMaps_0.9.XX.tar.gz or CARLA_0.9.10.1_RSS.tar.gz) into "Import" folder in the root folder of carla.* (Do not extract them!!) b. Run the script in the carla root folder

    ./ImportAssets.sh

  3. Now you should be able to run a calar host simulator directly with the following command in carla root file.

    ./CarlaUE4.sh

  4. After above steps, we are going to use conda to set up a virtual environment for Python version management in order to not influence current Python version of your OS. a. Conda setup: The following content is based-on Installing on Linux in conda offical website.

    1. Download a installer with the lastest version for Linux on Anaconda Installers, e.g. "64-Bit (x86) Installer (544 MB)" (Sep2021). (You can also choose Miniconda.)
    2. Navigate to your download file and run the following command using your exact filename to start install.

      bash Anaconda3-2021.05-Linux-x86_64.sh

    3. After running "conda init", we can go to carla root folder to build a virtual environment with the command:

      conda create --name py37 python=3.7

    4. Activate the specified conda environment

      conda activate py37

    5. You can use the conda install command to install the required packages:

      conda install numpy or conda install pygame

    6. Exit virtual conda environment

      conda deactivate

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