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Milan Jelisavcic edited this page Apr 4, 2019 · 24 revisions

Gazebo is the backbone of Revolve kit. The current version of Gazebo that we support is Gazebo 9. Here we explain the installation instructions for Ubuntu and Mac OS X.

[ Ubuntu . Fedora . Mac OS X ]

Install Gazebo on Ubuntu

  1. Make sure you have removed the Ubuntu pre-compiled binaries before installing from source:

    sudo apt-get remove '.*gazebo.*' \
                    '.*sdformat.*' \
                    '.*ignition-math.*' \
                    '.*ignition-msgs.*' \
                    '.*ignition-transport.*'

  2. Install OSRF simulation dependancies:

    sudo apt-get install libignition-cmake-dev \
                     libignition-common-dev \
                     libignition-math4-dev \
                     libignition-msgs-dev \
                     libignition-tools1-dev \
                     libignition-transport4-dev \
                     libsdformat6-dev \
                     libsimbody-dev

  3. Install Gazebo on your machine:

    sudo apt-get install libgazebo9-dev gazebo9

  4. Test if the installation was successful. You can do this in two ways.

  • First, if you run gzserver in verbose mode: 
    gzserver --verbose
    The result of this command should be: 
    Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 9.6.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg] Publicized address: 192.168.1.72
  • Second, if gzserver works as expected you can run gazebo: 
    gazebo
    The result of this command should be:

See next: Installation instructions for Revolve

Install Gazebo on Fedora

TODO

Install Gazebo on Mac OS X

In a clean Mac OS X installation you can install pre-compiled versions of all dependencies:

  1. If not already available, install Homebrew:

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  2. Install XQuartz, which provides X11 support and is required by Gazebo and OGRE.

  3. For 10.8 and earlier, install Xcode command-line tools by downloading them from Apple. For 10.9 and later, the system should prompt you to install them when you install Homebrew in step 1, otherwise install it with:

    xcode-select --install

  4. Install OSRF simulation dependancies:

    brew tap osrf/simulation
brew install ignition-cmake0 \
             ignition-common1 \
             ignition-math4 \
             ignition-msgs1 \
             ignition-tools \
             ignition-transport4 \
             sdformat6 \
             simbody

  5. Install Gazebo on your machine:

    brew install gazebo9

    and check if the right version is installed

    gazebo --version

    The result of this command should be:

    Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 9.6.0
Copyright (C) 2012 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

  6. Test if the installation was successful. You can do this in two ways.

  • First, if you run gzserver in verbose mode: 
    gzserver --verbose
    The result of this command should be: 
    Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 9.6.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg] Publicized address: 192.168.1.72
  • Second, if gzserver works as expected you can run gazebo: 
    gazebo
    The result of this command should be:

See next: Installation instructions for Revolve

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