The following list of shell commands will install Kinetic SROS on an Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) system:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116 sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python-catkin-tools python-rosdep python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool bash-completion byobu git less tree wget python-pip sudo rosdep init rosdep update mkdir -p ~/sros/src cd ~/sros/src rosinstall_generator ros_comm rospy_tutorials --rosdistro kinetic --deps --tar > kinetic-sros.rosinstall wstool init -j8 . kinetic-sros.rosinstall rm -rf ros_comm git clone -b sros https://github.com/ros/ros_comm git clone -b sros https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg rosdep install -y --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro kinetic cd ~/sros catkin config --install catkin build