Updates for 24.04/Jazzy/Harmonic

[andermi]

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[andermi]

new source install tutorial updates:
https://osrf.github.io/mbari_wec/pr-preview/pr-92/Tutorials/Install/Install_source/

[hamilton8415]

I was determined to get this installed and check the instructions this week. So had to push the week a little. :) But, Success! And I made a list of issues that were unclear or need fixing in the installation tutorial, otherwise everything appears to work. I'll exercise it some and approve the relevant PR's throughout.

• In the "Install from source" instructions (https://osrf.github.io/mbari_wec/pr-preview/pr-92/Tutorials/Install/Install_source/) the note to "follow instructions for Installing Gazebo with ROS" may be confusing as that link is informational only...

• I think we need to remove the instructions from the tutorial for 22.04/Humble/Garden. Confusing to have them there. we should discuss if we intend to keep the 22.04/Humble/Garden option available, and how we'd document that...

• Instruction refers to ros-humble-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp, should be ros-jazzy-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp

• We could add a suggestion to add export RMCexport RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp to .bashrc

• This "install Gazebo Harmonic by installing ros_gz from the ros-jazzy-* apt repos. See here for more info." could use some more descriptoins. Following the "here" link might cause people to follow in structions there instead of the instructions on the next line of our install tutorial.

• On my brand new 24.04 install, python3 -m pip gave an error " /usr/bin/python3: No module named pip". sudo apt-get install python3-pip fixed it.A

• On my new 24.04 installl "sudo pip3 install -U rosdep" complained "This environment is externally managed". and suggested a few solutions. I went with "--break-system-packages again, which then resulted in "Requirement already satisfied: rosdep in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (0.25.1)". So maybe rosdep is already present? Anyway, rosdep then seemed to work...

• Instructions still refer to humble "source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash ", should be "source /opt/ros/jazzy/setup.bash"