# Installing ROS on BlueROV companion

**URL:** <https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/installing-ros-on-bluerov-companion/10946>\
**Category:** Companion (Retired)\
**Tags:** guide, companion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/installing-ros-on-bluerov-companion/10946 "2021-11-02T14:08:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![EliotBR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/eliotbr/32/6937_2.png) [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/installing-ros-on-bluerov-companion/10946/2 "2021-11-04T15:24:12Z")

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Hi Anne,

This is really cool, thanks for putting the effort into writing these instructions! 😃

They’re well written and cover many of the potential pitfalls during the installation process, which will no doubt be useful to anyone trying to follow them 🙂

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Given many of the challenges you faced were with Jessie being old and no longer supported, I’m curious how much simpler the steps would be to run on [BlueOS Beta](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/blueos-1-0-beta-testing/10830). Perhaps an ROS service integration is a decent idea for one of our initial [Extensions](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/external-integrations-extensions/10912)…

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