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Gazebo 5 with ROS Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04

I need to use the combination Gazebo 5 (I need to use populations) with ROS Indigo (ros-indigo-effort-controllers, l ros-indigo-joint-state-controller), on Ubuntu 14.04.

Any suggestions on how to proceed for the installation?

Asked by Filippo Sanfilippo on 2016-05-06 11:49:42 UTC

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As shown on http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=ros_wrapper_versions&cat=connect_ros#Gazebo5.xseries

  1. Add the osrfoundation repository to your sources list. ref

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

wget http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

  1. Install ros-indigo-gazebo5-ros-pkgs from the osrfoundation repository, which will install the gazebo5 package.

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-gazebo5-ros-pkgs

BTW, maybe you also need to install ros-indigo-gazebo5-ros-control

Asked by wei on 2016-05-09 21:21:59 UTC

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Just a side note, since I lost 2 working days for this and it might help others: ros-indigo-gazebo5-ros-pkgs and the other ros-indigo-gazebo5 packages seem not available for i386! check http://packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo/ubuntu-stable/pool/main/r/ros-indigo-gazebo-ros-pkgs/ they are just provided for amd64 and thus will never appear in your apt-get if you’re on i386 (like me). Please note this in the documentation since its missing (or print it bold if it’s there).

Asked by m4k on 2016-05-20 15:27:21 UTC