Get Started: Introduction, Overview and Installation

Download and Install Gazebo

We recommend Gazebo 1.9 with ROS-hydro on Ubuntu 12.04 (for futher information about which combination of ROS/Gazebo verisons to use, see this link. Instructions given on this link1 and []. Follow the notes and commands below.

If not using Ubuntu 12.04 and installing hydro: please refer to instructions given here.

1) Pre-compiled binaries

   1) Make sure your Ubuntu repositories are set to allow -restricted-, -universe-, and -multiverse-. For more information on repositories and how to change repository settings, see this link.

   2) Set up your computer to accept software from packages.osrfoundation.org

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gazebo-latest.list'

   3) Get and install the keys for the repositories
   wget http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

   4) Update then install Gazebo
   sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gazebo

   5) Check installation
   gzserver
gzclient
   Since Gazebo was installed from debian, it should say (do not enter this command into terminal; compare this to what it says when you entered 'gzserver')
   /usr/bin/gzserver
/usr/bin/gzclient