Setting up RaceCom

This chapter will show you how to install RaceCom and its required dependencies. If you already have RaceCom installed on your machine, you can skip this chapter and directly jump to the RaceCom Tools Documentation.

Installation system requirements

Racecom packages are provided as debian based linux distributions and are tested for Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04 and 18.04 on 64-bit architectures. In case of any issues, please email support@franka.de.

Installing RaceCom

First, install the required dependencies:

sudo apt install libzmq3-dev

Then you can install the debian package you were provided with:

sudo dpkg -i racecom_*.deb

This will place the ride executable in /usr/bin. Execute:

racecom --help

to see the available commands.