Could not open Gazebo using gazebo_ros
I have followed this TUTORIAL to install gazebo_ros_pkgs
I opted to install using the Pre-Built Debians
When I try to open the gazebo using
rosrun gazebo_ros gazebo
The gazebo keeps loading and just freezes:
I checked the topic using rostopic list
and there was no other topics than /rosout and /rosout_agg which are from the ros master that I opened using roscore
.
Please help!!!
I use Ubuntu Xenial, ROS kinetic, gazebo 7. The standalone gazebo , which was installed when I installed the ros, works fine. I installed the full desktop version of ros.
After installing the gazebo_ros_pkgs, I tried to run the command once again , here's the output:
sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-control
[sudo] password for mon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-control is already the newest version (2.5.13-0xenial-20170805-130400-0800).
ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs is already the newest version (2.5.13-0xenial-20170727-212737-0800).
ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 89 not upgraded.
I notice that it says: "ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs set to manually installed" I wonder if this is the problem????
EDIT: After reading this thread , I realize that 'manually installed' is not the problem.
I checked on my gazebo_ros_pkgs folder. Here's the output
mon@mon:/opt/ros/kinetic/share/gazebo_ros_pkgs$ ls
package.xml
Please help to solve this.